Fire up your narghile (hookah, shisha) and settle back for some compelling arabic melodies and rhythms, performed by Kaazim Zareb, by profession a bellydance accompanist, who in this creative departure brings a jazzy improvisational flavor to mellow arabic art music. These tracks blend elements of traditional Middle Eastern musical idioms with contemporary electronica mixing style.
Here is a contribution to the acclaimed Rain series on Webbed Hand by the talented K.M. Krebs. A long-form ambient work of many subtle and shifting motifs, this relaxing electroacoustic ambient journey will take you far on pleasant and varying wavelengths.
Masterful abstract paintings in sound, wrought through the collaborative brilliance of Raphael Flores and mystified (aka Thomas Park). A transatlantic masterpiece of shared samples and creative accord. Each sent a selection of recordings to the other for mixing, and the results are here for you to enjoy.
This long-form ambient piece is a collaboration of Marco Lucchi with his son, Dario. Marco handles the electronic parts, and Dario contributes improvisations on his French Horn. The work as a whole warmly illustrates the idea of “repetition with variation” as familiar motifs rotate but there are changes.
Webbed Hand welcomes the work of Marco Lucchi, a noted and very skilled musician who has distinguished himself in Europe for his work in the experimental, new age, and electronica genres.
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.
Vincent Bergeron comes to Webbed Hand Records with a very unusual album. A work of surreal pop/cabaret/experimental music with lyrics in French. Compelling and very listenable.
Somewhere in the spectrum between Musique Concrete and Phonography, is a vast gray area that is disowned and disputed by either side. This compilation treats this no-man’s land as its playground.
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.