Sonmi451 * Iluiteq
Sonmi451’s ‘Seven Signals In The Sky’ is the Summer edition in Laaps’ Records series *** Iluiteq mournes the (future) loss of wilderness.
Dead Melodies * Dave Phillips
Dark ambient with a vague sense of nostalgia by Dead Melodies, and a scary exploration of death from Dave Phillips.
DreamScenes – July 2021
“The Place Where You Go To Listen” is a title from John Luther Adams’ ‘Arctic Dreams’ – but also the motto for this months’ DreamScenes edition.
Marc Neys * Ivano Pecorini
Marc Neys’s sound collage compiled from soundtracks for animated stills, and Ivano Pecorini’s music for the ‘Sexy Movers’ dance performance.
Hawgood/Hüwels/Murray * Hüwels/Date
Day Falls: a collaboration by Ian Hawgood, James Murray and Stijn Hüwels.
Hüwels also released an album with Tomoyashi Date.
Cut Worms * Lab’s Cloud
Richard van Kruysdijk concludes his Cut Worms trilogy *** Lab’s Cloud (Raúl Jordán) explores the Structure of Emotions.
Kevin Richard Martin * Three Point Circle
Kevin Richard Martin re-interprets and re-scores the soundtrack for Tarkovsky’s Solaris *** K. Leimer, Marc Barreca and Steve Peters collaborate on the second Three Point Circle album.
John Luther Adams * Philip Blackburn
From Arctic Dreams to reverberating cisterns of Istanbul: music from John Luther Adams and Philip Blackburn.
loscil * Murcof
Ambientblog does not generally cover the bigger names in ambient music.
In my opinion, both Loscil and Murcof belong to the more well-known artists of the genre – and most of you will probably already be familiar with their new releases.
But even so, I couldn’t bring myself to skip these releases. Simply because they belong to the best you will probably hear this year.
So here’s an exception to the ‘rule’.