Artist : VA
Album : An Introduction To Soft
Year : 2014
Genre : Ambient
Quality : 234kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint Stereo
Source : CD
Playtime : 1h 04m
Size : 112.8mb
Label : Soft Recordings
Catalognr : ST001
Tracklist:
01. Kevin Verwijmeren - Scenery For A Hallway 6:57
02. Leonardo Rosado - Sub Pulse Zero One 4:14
03. Monolyth & Cobalt - A Winter Breath (Inhale) 4:31
04. Darren Harper - A Winter's Path 7:14
05. Linear Bells - Few Steps Away 6:02
06. Endless Melancholy - Broken 4:27
07. Sima Kim - 24-25 5:57
08. Lost Trail - Netherworld 6:04
09. Radere - Respirator 7:00
10. Kissy Suzuki - Port Green 3:10
11. Saito Koji - Bells 3:02
12. Bengalfuel - Sofia 5:26
Releasenotes:
David Teboul, founder of Soft Recordings, has curated a collection of sonic gems
from such luminaries as Darren Harper, Sima Kim, Bengalfuel, and others. These
dozen tracks reveal a broad spectrum of drone, ambient, experimental, and noise
music, with a sprinkling of modern classical.
Each song in the compilation flows into the next. Throbbing melodies, low
vibrations, and distorted strings blur, thickening into gritty choirs. The
crunch and muted crackle of densely layered tape. Growling, scratchy textures.
Despite their differences in styles and backgrounds, the artists' individual
works share mood and vision: songs full of longing and half-remembered dreams.
Kevin Verwijmeren's opening lush chords, swelling and fading. Leonardo Rosado
uses bursts of static to form broken percussive sequences, balanced by the
focused formlessness of Saito Koji's fuzzed hum toward the end of the record.
Radere's liquid field recordings segue into Kissy Suzuki's warm atmospheric
pads. Linear Bells and Endless Melancholy each blend dissonant, atonal
structures with sparse, lovely piano melodies. Lost Trail's insistent guitar
arpeggios run in counterpoint to the glitched feedback loops of Monolith &
Cobalt.
"An Introduction to Soft" is an evening spent in a mountainside cabin, listening
to the storm shake the trees in the darkness. Inside, all is still, hushed,
waiting. The fervent glow of firelight, bright against frosted windows.
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