Despite being “minimal” this new opus by Mystified is also full of subtlety and warmth. In a nutshell it is a long-form dronescape, lightly seasoned with dimly audible sparkles, tones and harmonics. The central theme is pleasantly massaging industrial hum, with a bit of distortion and crackle in it.
Finnish electronica artist Mika Bjorklund makes his debut on Webbed Hand with a long-form ambient composition inspired by other long-form albums on this label, including the Rain series. This excellent track is both engaging and relaxing, and recommended for those times when you want to unwind for the night.
Mark Hamn, aka Francesco Giannico from Taranto Italy, has brewed up some remarkable sound art. Each composition is named for a prefix, but at their core, each rumbles with the geologic power of a shifting landscape.
The only surviving tape of sound experiments made by C.P. McDill from a period of creative work spanning 1988-93, finally recovered, remixed, and mastered for Webbed Hand release. Exposes the roots of McDill’s audio aesthetics.
“Nightmare” is a 76-minute dark ambient composition by spoonPhase. Carried along by ectoplasmic bass through a place vast and unlit, you perceive great presences in the distance, huge things passing, while hovering nearby are strange small creatures which occasionally mumble and titter in your ear.
Here is another fine long-form ambient composition by the prolific Mystified. Good for both headphone psychonautics or quiet low-volume ambience, this work is a subtle and shifting composition of echoing percussions across a windy landscape.
“Falling” is a word which can be applied both literally and metaphorically. And in both senses, there is a kind of terminal velocity that one reaches after falling for long enough. What if there is no bottom? Would you get so used to descending that it feels like being still?
A 74-minute ambient track. The setting here comes across not as a fairytale forest, as in Rain 1 [wh028], rather more like an ancient abandoned city on the edge of a desert, as viewed in a grainy film. For some of more sensitive intuition, not empty at all but bustling with ghosts.
The Rain series has at last a contribution from spoonPhase. This recording takes you into the vast cavernous spaces of your mind, where the rhythms of nature are quietly performed by the elements and sightless creatures of the deep.
The Hush is a 45-minute ambient soundscape of a darker nature than Emanate (wh038). This is an extended voyage, perhaps experienced from within the engine room of an intergalactic vessel. A throbbing, soporific bass is punctuated by echoing metallic sounds, and the auditory space is sometimes graced by mellow but alien melodies and harmonic drones.