This is entrancing vworgy ambient-drone stuff from the combined talents of space-rock scenesters Windy Weber and Carl Hultgren and fellow Michiganders Fred Thomas and Frank Rotondo aka Optigan Conservatory. Windy & Carl bring the guitars, I believe, but with enough effects pedals that a lot of the time you’d scarcely know. When you do hear actual plucked melodies, it’s stripped back and floaty, a little like label-mates Pan American maybe. Thomas & Rotondo bring the synths — though not, I understand, an actual optigan — and lovely droning stuff it is, gently pulsating. There’s one bit that’s got something that sounds almost like a distant muted trumpet, although I’m sure it’s not: the effect is rather like listening to dilated jazz drifting in from another dimension.
I was quite surprised when I saw that the six tracks here only clock in at 38 minutes in total. It’s the kind of thing that has the effect of making you feel like you’ve been suspended in time. The sounds seem to me to be at once comfortingly familiar and yet pleasingly fresh, and the whole thing is rather hazy and magical.
I bought this from Boomkat. They call it Ambient, Electronic.
