Category: score

Catching up with my queue: this is among the greatest things I’ve heard this legendary partnership make.

Kenney is a vocalist and composer internationally regarded for her spellbinding timbres and her in-depth study of oral traditions. Her work takes the form of sound installations, talismanic scores, music for film, electronics, and choir. She released the groundbreaking experimental gamelan album Atria (Sige) in 2015, and has collaborated with Lori Goldston, Holland Andrews, Niloufar Shiri, Tashi… Wada, Alvin Lucier, Sarah Davachi, Melati Suryodarmo, Ensemble Nist-Nah, Sunn O))), and numerous others.
Kang, a multi-instrumentalist, composer and arranger, works across genre and discipline, bringing subtlety, fluidity, and emotional intensity to each of his varied projects. In addition to creating a striking body of solo works that has traced its way across the last two and half decades – most recently including Sonic Gnostic (Aspen Edities, 2021) and Ajaeng Ajaeng (Ideologic Organ, 2020) – he has played on albums by Bill Frisell, Joe McPhee, Sun City Girls, Ikue Mori, Laurie Anderson, Blonde Redhead, William Hooker, Animal Collective, and numerous others.

This is some deep time diving.

Structures from Silence‘s breathing, suspended embrace of atmospheres and serene melodies instantly struck a chord with listeners in 1984; the album continues to reiterate its timeless resonations with new listeners today.
On this landmark recording of gentle proportions, the three long-form tracks were the birth of something new: an original and pure statement striking a balance between diaphanous and understated, deep and reflective. The listening experience evokes a sense of silence within the music as well as the space between the chords. It expresses the breath of life and offers a meditation on delicate strands of subtle awareness.

Classic ambient longform soundscape, excellent for winding down and dreaming to.

Following the same path as “Your Soft Absence”, “Softer Than Before” weaves sine waves and wind instruments into patterns and variations of symmetry, repetition and chance.
The two compositions are haunted by a sense of absence, cloaked in a looming eeriness that stems from childlike wonder and a longing for the unknown.

Perhaps just a little too unsettled/unsettling to be night music, but it wraps around you with its questions.

Also: Stasis Sounds For Long​-​Distance Space Travel, 36 & zakè

G’night.

It’s not on CD! Am furious!

I like all their summery-pagan-forest sound, but the first piece here is a bit out of character, lots of chanting and vocal drone, and I love it.

Atrium Carceri & Kammarheit presents us Apparatus, a dark cavernous underground ambient album exploring both a barren surface of enormous structures and ancient underground passageways. Analog tape reels, haunting electronics, pulsating basslines and massive reverbs combine for a deep journey through warm and dark sound.