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Whenever I listen to an ambient album, I always check and see where the artist’s influences stem from. In the case of The Lonely Bell, the full-length album called “Ghost Town Burning” does not necessarily beg to any path or another, but it goes about and presents itself as music […]
Montreal-based rock outfit Atsuko Chiba to release new album “Water, It Feels Like It’s Growing” on January 20th on Mothland. Their latest offering leads listeners down a path of epic sprawling soundscapes. Asymmetric, yet seamless time signatures, otherworldly synthetic frequencies, patented harmonies, raga-inspired melodies, cryptic lyrics, and orchestral arrangements co-exist within this surreal musical […]
A day spent meandering along the banks of a silent river in the company of only one’s own thoughts and the sounds of rustling leaves, gently lapping water or a crackling fire. It’s a renewal our modern life rarely affords, but for about 35 minutes, one can travel to such […]
Spacey drone/post-rock experimentalists Canadensis present their third album, “The Decades Apart Have Weathered Us Both”, which will be out on 29 July 2022 via the duo’s own publishing venture, Medicine for a Nightmare. The Decades Apart Have Weathered Us Both by Canadensis Canadensis is the duo of D. Fylstra of Folian (ex-Ramprasad, Flood Peak, Drowse, and The Stargazer Lilies) and […]
Portland-based drone/shoegaze/noise project FOLIAN premieres 2nd track ‘Beau Ideal’ from upcoming EP “Mimicking Nothingness”, out on 15 July via the architect D. Fylstra’s own imprint Anima Recordings. Mimicking Nothingness by Folian Formed by the musician D. Fylstra, FOLIAN merges elements of drone, shoegaze, metal, pop, and experimental noise, as well […]
Dortmund’s BongBongBeerWizards are pleased to share their third album, “Ampire” via Electric Valley Records. Ahead of the album release date, the sludgy doom/drone group teamed up with Deaf Forever to offer the stream of the album. “We are influenced by bands like Pink Floyd, St Erik, Bomg, ODD, Dark Buddha Rising, Slomatics, Radien, and all different […]
missing scenes, the newest project of R. Hunter has just released “cold moon/worm moon,” the first chapter from the first in a trilogy of albums to be released in 2022, and will be followed by “pink moon/buck moon”, and concluded with “sturgeon moon/beaver moon”. We talked with R. Hunter about the latest album and […]
Gilles Deles-Velins had a mystical relationship with sound and music since he was a child and his crafting of music can be compared to a construction kit game, where music as a whole is more than the sum of sounds. For him, sound has some sort of kinship with the concept […]
There’s always something mysterious within noise and drone music. It is either soft and comforting as a bird’s chirp or as loud and abrasive as a jackhammer. However, Lunt‘s newest album, “Between crystal and smoke,” feels like the sibling of ambiance instead. While some use drone music to express anger, […]
A couple of weeks after unveiling a live rendition to their common work with the video of ‘Birth’ and then giving birth to the effort on the legal platforms, Swiss Drone/Tribal Doom/Improv Post-Metal duo Somnolent Priests finally released its debut full-length album called “Act I: Awareness”, on Deluxe 2xLP & Digital through SundayFog Records. […]