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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.