This one kind of snuck up on me. I gave it a listen because (a) I have fond memories of 2015’s Yellow Bell, and (b) it has a cool name. My initial reaction to the first few minutes was that it was nice but unremarkable. And yet by the end of that first listen I was happily eating my words, and it’s only grown on me since.
The first and last of the three tracks here are deep, woozy ambient drone, all horns and clarinets and synthy things that almost but don’t quite sound like voices at times, floating out of the ether. It apparently uses convolution reverb to mimic the acoustics of an Amazon fulfillment centre. I think this is a neat conceptual device. The dreamy sonic effect is quite out of kilter with the hellscape of modern capitalism it represents. It reminds me somewhat of the brass half of Lea Bertucci’s Acoustic Shadows. (The shorter second track is a more chiming synth sound, and a nice palate cleanser.) It’s all very quiet and undemonstrative, but by the final few minutes I realize that I’ve become spellbound without even noticing.
I bought this from Boomkat. They call it Modern Classical / Ambient.
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