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Tag Archives: ambient music
numün’s Opening
Driving a lonely road late at night. Reading dreamy space opera. Or just settling in to regain your equilibrium after too much time on social media. Those are the kinds of setting where I turn to the ambient soundscapes of … Continue reading
numün’s Book of Beyond
The New York psychedelic ambient trio numün’s sophomore release is, for me, a grower. I like it more each time I listen to it. Their debut Voyage au Soleil was one of my favorite albums of 2020, and on the … Continue reading
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SUSS’s SUSS
Ambient country pioneers SUSS have weathered an emotional roller coaster since the unexpected passing of member Gary Leib in March 2021, right after they finished recording the Southwestern road trip EP Night Suite. That EP was released in October 2021, … Continue reading
SUSS’s Heat Haze
Heat Haze picks up where the New York ambient country band SUSS left off with their previous offering, Night Suite left off. That five-song EP, you’ll recall, dropped unexpectedly in October 2021. It took the listener on a nighttime journey … Continue reading
SUSS’s Night Suite
The latest recording from ambient country pioneers SUSS takes them out of their Brooklyn environs on a road trip to a part of the country that fully mirrors their sound. After putting out three albums in three years, culminating in … Continue reading
Gary’s favorite ‘world music’ of 2020
This sort of exercise serves to point up one of the problems with broad genres like “world music.” It’s reductive and inaccurate and Western-centric, and you end up with some strange companions. However, I listened to lots of music from … Continue reading
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Nous’s Nous II
What first attracted me to this recording was the presence of Shahzad Ismaily, the New York-based multi-instrumentalist whose playing, composing and arranging skills have made him a valued contributer to projects by so many musicians it’s impossible to list them … Continue reading
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Lumen Drones’ Umbra
Let’s see, how many of my musical buttons does this new release by Lumen Drones push? Hardanger fiddle? Check. Folk-based experimental music? Check. Nordic music? Check. And of course the big one, right there in the name: drones, drones, drones! … Continue reading
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Michele Rabbia, Gianluca Petrella, Eivind Aarset’s Lost River
By turns ambient, majestic, contemplative, evocative, even at times unsettling, Lost River by the new trio of drummer Michele Rabbia, guitarist Eivind Aarset and trombonist Gianluca Petrella is a sonic hall of wonders. The album’s 10 tracks, mostly in the … Continue reading
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Ugasanie’s Border of Worlds
Ugansie is the name under which Russian musician Pavel Malyshkin creates his art, which is called dark polar ambient. Border of Worlds is his fourth release since he started making this kind of music in 2010. This one is focused … Continue reading
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