
The prolific Mystified triumphs again with this very subtle exploration of soft drones and harmonic noises, some incorporating understated rhythms. This album is recommended for noise/drone enthusiasts.

The prolific Mystified triumphs again with this very subtle exploration of soft drones and harmonic noises, some incorporating understated rhythms. This album is recommended for noise/drone enthusiasts.

Our first compilation for 2008 presents a facet of ambient music that is often overlooked in favor of the more electronic or synthesized soundscapes. Here we have an eclectic collection of works featuring a broad variety string instruments, usually but not always treated to effects. In the artist credits below we’ve provided information about the instruments used, and you can see they range from the familiar to the exotic.

The Nature of Light returns to Webbed Hand with this remarkable new album of orchestral ambient soundscapes. Put on some headphones, close your eyes, and listen to a movie unfold in your mind.

Audio Gourmet returns to Webbed Hand with a conceptual ambient album called Earth’s Exit Door. These very subtle soundscapes reveal a lot of detail the closer you listen.

After an absence of several years, Tree Helicopter returns to Webbed Hand, now venturing deeper into a musique concrete/noise style. This work is more abstract than that found on “Moon Calf” (wh014), but at the same time more unified and perhaps more accessible.

“Problem,” “Reaction” and “Solution” are long-form ambient melodic (organ) drone compositions by Drone Wallah (C.P. McDill of Saluki Regicide, Djinnestan, etc). Nice all-purpose drone pieces you can play quietly, loudly, or any way you please.

This debut album by Alceste features a complex and melancholic blend of dark ambient and melodic elements, illustrating the arc of a fateful relationship.

Materia Confusa returns to Webbed Hand with another pair of Musique Concrete compositions inspired, as the title implies, by the adventures that excited earlier generations of youth.

“Owl and Rooster” are long-form ambient melodic (organ) drone compositions by Drone Wallah (C.P. McDill of Saluki Regicide, Djinnestan, etc). Nice all-purpose drone pieces you can play quietly, loudly, or any way you please.

“The Foggy Dew” is a long-form ambient melodic (organ) drone composition by Drone Wallah (C.P. McDill of Saluki Regicide, Djinnestan, etc). A nice all-purpose drone piece you can play quietly, loudly, or any way you please.