Altars Altars – Small Hours
[Reviewed by stark] This album reminds me of the late seventies and early eighties. Not in the strictly musical aspect, it’s rather like looking through old photos from that era. […]
Tag Archives: ambient
Celer/Dirk Serries – Background Curtain
[Reviewed by stark] “Background Curtain” is the effect of a teaming between two known and respected old ambient wolves. Will Long, hiding behind Celer moniker has released dozens of materials. […]
Mathias Grassow – The Nightquest Sessions
[Reviewed by stark] “The Nightquest Sessions” is another episode of the everlasting affair between Mathias Grassow and gterma label. I don’t complain, by all means. It’s not a brand new […]
Keith Berry – Elixir
[Reviewed by Peter Marks] It is a rare occurrence to come across an album which pulls you out of your surroundings so completely; when I received ‘Elixir’ I could not […]
Murkok – So Little Music
[Reviewed by stark] Is the title of an album relevant to its actual content? Well, if you consider music through the prism of what they play in mainstream radio from […]
Disharmony – Fragments of Time
[Reviewed by Peter Marks] Tempting as it might be to just write this off as music exclusively created in and for abandoned spaces, don’t. For fifteen years now I’ve been […]
Leila Abdul-Rauf – Insomnia
[Reviewed by stark] The front cover image draws attention first. Is it a Canadian wilderness? Cut by a human presence like a scar. It reminds me of Andrey Konchalovski’s “Runaway […]
Tor Lundvall – Nature Laughs as Time Slips By
[Reviewed by Peter Marks] Does it ever. While we as a race go about our trials and tribulations, the background which surrounds us moves at a much slower pace. People […]
Tobias Hellkvist – Vesterhavet (Extended)
[Reviewed by stark] I remember my first encounter with Tobias Hellkvist’s music. It was about three years ago, when I had bought a bunch of Home Normal albums, some Bvdub, […]
Various Artists – Drone-Mind // Mind-Drone Vol. 5
[Reviewed by stark] The fifth settlement of the mind-droning series once again proves that the ambient spirit is alive in very different longitudes, latitudes and cultural determinants. Sure, the series […]
