The prolific leading-edge electronica artist Mystified has come to Webbed Hand with this splendid dark ambient EP called “Cardboard Hotel.” Fans of Mystified’s many album releases and compilation appearances will be thoroughly pleased with this collection of deep listening tracks.
“To Ancient Noise” is a compilation of manipulated environmental sounds. Whether field recordings, found sounds, radio snippets, or other odd recorded artifacts of audio, these elements are worked by sound artists in interesting and often startling ways.
WH Records has given spot #23 to this extraordinary psychedelic power noise ensemble. Intense auditory massage reaches into your brain to tweak your evolution.
Garage folkadelic grunge, or power 3rd-ear coffeehouse antifolk, or…? This mysterious combo makes its debut on Webbed Hand Records netlabel, after a couple of years on the CD-R circuit.
Skidbladni is a second, shorter release by Akashic Crow’s Nest. The concept here is dream logic, temporal dislocation, and auditory hallucination. The music is constructed entirely from the output of an image synthesizer (which turns pictures into sounds), with effects added, but no other instruments or samples.
Purr is a 76 minute ambient track intended to be played at low volume as background ambience, preferably as you go to sleep. It generates a warm and cozy feeling, like having a cat purring next to your head.
Tree Helicopter’s first hypnotic contribution to the Webbed Hand “Rain” ambient project. A 73-minute journey, sprinkled with samples and rhythms characteristic of Tree Helicopter.
A second collaboration between Mystified and Saluki Regicide. The theme of this concept EP is a pilgrimage in some distant land. The traveller, faced with strangeness, is defamiliarized and experiences mystical insight.
A collaborative album of impressionistic ambient and electronic pieces, inspired by inventions of the past. A very strong a seamless pooling of creative talent and resources. This album shows promise of becoming a favorite.
Djinnestan is the quieter spawn of Saluki Regicide. Selling the Wind is a collection of ambient constructions which have been derived from other, more “complicated” tracks among my other recording projects. It has something in common with the Rain compositions as well, in that they are mellow studies in repetition with variation, but these differ in their brevity. As a collection, they are a pleasure to listen to.