Empty, the new Nils Frahm album contains 8 previously unreleased track conceived the start of the previous decade. They are quite gorgeous, intimate, warm, slow piano tracks. It is very comforting lullabies and this release with all the others revolving around piano day 2020 makes me quite hopeful in a
Fellow compatriot Ocoeur (aka Franck Zaragoza, composer and sound designer, based in Bruges, near Bordeaux) will release his 5th album on the legendary label n5MD on February 28. Ocoeur is an artist which never failed to create a perfect mix between sonic experimentation and melodies based optimistic ambient. I loved
Jon Hopkins, back to "simple" Piano and violin stuff is a great, early 2020, surprise. You could even say that tonight, a new Hopkins ambient track was exactly what I needed to remove some of the tension from my back. I hope it'll do the same for you!
Song Exploder is a very popular bi-weekly podcast presented by podcaster and musician, Hrishikesh Hirway. In each edition, he interviews another musician about a song they wrote, cuts out his side of the conversation and replaces it with pieces of the track discussed. It’s a brilliant idea and the
Kiasmos is the collaboration between Ólafur Arnalds and Janus Rasmussen and seems to be the preferred way for the legendary Icelandic composer and pianist to add some sweet, sweet beats to his beautiful melancholic melodies. Their eponymous album was an excellent blend of modern classical ambient and minimal techno and
Three Years after their incredible first album, A Winged Victory for the Sullen was finally back in 2014 with Atomos, the score for a contemporary dance piece. And I must confess something: this album slip by me: I have listened to it one or two times and it disappeared in
Recently signed by n5MD. A very interesting track by an Italian/English duo. My kind of vocalist over my kind of glitchy music. Their Album Acht LP is out on n5md.