![]() ![]() ![]() Robert Crouch‘s A Gradual Accumulation of Ideas Becomes Truth offers sprawling pieces for modular synthesizer, while Luigi Turra‘s Alea offers periods of sudden sound and silence, experimenting with the placement of fragments and echoes. The LINE label has two releases lined up for April. Song from the End of the World is due 25 March. We can always expect cold music from Glacial Movements, and Rapoon‘s latest set engages in extended meditations on a changing earth. The artist mixes beats into the batch for an extra-chilled experience the bonus track is called “Polar.” Awake is released 27 April. The same holds true for Nacht Plank‘s Alien (Carpe Sonum, 25 March), which begins with watery sounds and ends in an extended beat track and Lorenzo Montana & Mick Chillage keep the pace slow and sweet on Deviazoni Cosmiche, drifting gently through space (Carpe Sonum, 29 April).įresh from their success with Cicada, flau records returns with the ambient / dronescapes of Submerse. One look at the sci-fi cover, and one can tell that Trust the Guide and Glide, from Matthewdavid’s Mindflight, is a cosmic, new-age inflected journey expect time distortion during playback (Leaving, 25 March). Ocoeur‘s Reversed is due the same day on n5MD, and features comforting strings and calming piano. Chihei Hatakeyama releases a lot of music, but it’s all restful, and we expect no less of Requiem for Black Night and Earth Spiders, released on his own White Paddy Mountain(25 March). Calder Down is a blend of guitar, piano, synth, organ and strings, and is out 23 March. Icelandic duo Calder (including Stafrænn Hákon) has found a new home for their peaceful sounds on Nature Bliss. The album drops with a whisper on 29 March ( Simulacra). ![]() In the quiet department we also find the aptly named Soft Decibels , a lovely and lulling album from Tapes and Topograhpies. ![]() Overflow Pool sounds as sedate as its cover (seen directly to the right) and is out 25 March on Further. Completists, order now to receive the bonus tracks and exclusive ambient EP!Ĭeler returns as Mogador this spring, ironically drawing comparisons to the aforementioned Eno. Hammock makes a triumphant return with Everything and Nothing ( Hammockmusic, 1 April), available in multiple formats two of the three preview tracks contain vocals and a heavy shoegaze vibe is apparent throughout. Two tracks, including part of a Velvet Underground cover, and no previews to share as of yet, but Brian Eno‘s The Ship is out 29 April on Warp. Order early if you want a sweet slice of gray vinyl. 36 embraces his ambient routes on Seconds & Forever, which features two 18-minute tracks (totaling 36!) and is out 1 May on Mystic & Quantum. It also bears another beautiful cover print, as seen to the left (21 March). Michael Tanner returns to Kit Records with the languid and self-explanatory Suite for Psaltery and Dulcimer, inspired by memories of new age cassettes. While you’re on the site, be sure to check out the back catalog as well! A preview of the contents is displayed to the right. The CD comes in a choice of night and day versions, and is especially recommended to fans of the historical and nostalgic. David Colohan, Richard Moult and many others pay tribute to lost locales and submerged villages, incorporating field recordings and folk trimmings along with a sweetly melancholic vibe. Pre-orders won’t start until 11 April, and the album won’t be released until 25 April, but we’re already enamored with the lineup, the sound and the presentation. Rich’s Pick: Various Artists ~ The Quietened Village ( A Year in the Country) You may find your new favorite album right here! And be sure to visit our News scroll, which contains only the music, and is updated daily with new announcements and tracks! As usual, we’ve broken the albums into categories, with a top pick in each one we’ve also highlighted some of the best artwork. This is still just a fraction of what will be released this spring, but these artists and labels are ahead of the game, and we love being able to reward them in this way. Everything you need to know is in here, including hyperlinks. After listening to over 100 albums in part or whole, we’ve prepared this preview. Every day more previews were added to our News scroll, so many that it seemed about to collapse. More names swiftly joined them, announcing albums with release dates from March 21 to May: Brian Eno, Tim Hecker, Gold Panda, Colin Stetson. Big announcements started to come in, all clustering around the first of April: Hammock, Sasha, Mogwai, Explosions in the Sky. As early as January, we started to get an inkling that something was in the air. The 2016 spring release schedule is the best that we can remember, with one release date ~ April 1 ~ stacking up to be the biggest in years. ![]()
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