A follow-up to “Ghosties” (wh029), this is another collection of strange textural works, blending drones and other samples into opulent and ruined atmospheres. Liminal sounds give rise to mystic voices.
wh042 Djinnestan – Hasenpfeffer
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wh041 spoonPhase – Rain 1
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.
wh040 spoonPhase – Messy Messy Messy
This album follows the trajectory of a messy life from birth, through highs and lows, and ultimately into a strange place. It’s a story, the autobiography of a shattered soul. Many genres of electronic music meet in this album, and the vocal element is at times both dark and whimsical. This is a great production with a big sound.
wh039 Mystified – The Hush
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.
wh038 Tribe of Astronauts – Manatee
Manatee is a 45-minute ambient soundscape which give the feeling of sleeping outdoors under the stars, on a balmy southern Summer night. Electronic and instrumental sounds are blended with field recordings in a relaxing continuum with no dissonance, shocks or surprises. The whole effect is warm and agreeably trance-inducing. This piece has a brain-massaging bass pulse and a nice panoramic sound arrangement.
wh037 mayfairgrin – Pelicagnosis
The title of Pelicagnosis is no empty play on words. These four tracks do venture quite some distance into the realm of gnosis. Here is a blend of ambient sounds with addition of guitar, vocals, and other instruments, resulting in a feast for the ears.
wh036 Mystified – Free Passage
Mystified has offered “Free Passage” and you are welcome to come along. This densely atmospheric 20-minute ambient journey has a pronounced forward momentum, and there’s no telling where you will end up at the end of this trip.
wh035 mayfairgrin – Spider and the Moon
mayfairgrin’s Spider and the Moon is a 31-minute composition which carries the listener on a textural tour through a varied soundscape.
wh034 spoonPhase – Songs for Psychos pt 1
Songs for Psychos, part one initiates spoonPhase’s artistic exploration of a shattered mind. With equal parts darkness and whimsy, these compositions meander through the corridors of the mind with a music that at times seems like lullabyes or serenades, and at other times like mockery and deconstruction.
wh033 Akashic Crow’s Nest – Mining Off-World
Here’s another Sci-Fi themed album by Akashic Crow’s Nest. This time, the concept centers on the experiences of a miner/prospector in a remote and hostile off-world mining colony. The sound: strong, droney ambient soundscapes, more intense that in The Void Captain’s Tale (wh015).