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Album Review: Pan•American – ‘Fly The Ocean In A Silver Plane’: An intricate set of guitar blessed ambience which steer the emotions.

It’s sobering to think that Mark Nelson aka Pan•American has been diligently considering and creating musical radiance for over twenty-five years now. Guitarist, vocalist and founder member of post-rock, ambient…

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Album Review: Adam Wiltzie – ‘Eleven Fugues for Sodium Pentothal’: The composer of definitive ambient music provides an album for your deeper thoughts.

You sometimes get the feeling American composer Adam Wiltzie, despite instigating so much proclaimed ambient classical music for the last three decades, prefers the shadows to the spotlight. Whether intentional…

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Track/Video: Composer of definitive ambient music Adam Wiltzie previews solo album with the spectral beauty of ‘Tissue Of Lies’.

It’s staggering that in around thirty years as a key contributor to the development of ambient and modern classical music, Adam Bryanbaum Wiltzie has released very few ‘solo’ albums. Firstly…

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Album Review : Justin Walter – ‘Destroyer’ : More exceptional electronic imagery from the EVI pioneer

It’s been six years since jazz trumpeter and electronic musician Justin Walter’s last album for Kranky, the ethereally wonder-filled ‘Unseen Forces’, and almost a decade since his label debut ‘Lullabies…

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Track/Video : Justin Walter previews long awaited new album ‘Destroyer’ with the title track’s aching beauty.

Jazz trumpeter and electronic musician Justin Walter is an artist who obviously takes care. It’s been six years since his last for Kranky, the ethereally wonderfilled ‘Unseen Forces’ and before…

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Track: Ambient explorer Earthen Sea previews the soulful ‘Rough Air’ from his soon come album ‘Ghost Poems’.

Jacob Long (aka Earthen Sea) has a musical provenance that inevitably draws you in to take a look. He’s been a member of the Dischord endorsed, post-hardcore agitators Black Eyes,…

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SEE: The three-colour, macroscopic delicacy of Loscil’s ‘Vespera’ announces a new set of textural electronic bliss for Kranky

SCOTT MORGAN, the textural, amniotic electronic artist responsible for such deep, pulsing and fathoms-deep works as the sublime Submers and Sketches From New Brighton, is releasing the tenth album of…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Ana Roxanne – ‘Because Of A Flower’: a blissful vocal gem from Kranky

Ana Roxanne’s debut LP for Kranky is a beautiful, ambient album that examines ideas about gender, identity and beauty whilst remaining ultimately soothing. It’s one to return to when in need of solace.

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TRACK: Ana Roxanne’s ‘Suite Pour L’invisible’: haunting and lush

KRANKY. It’s a label that this unerring step with beautiful and complex ambient music, one which it’s been plying now for a quarter-century and more. The Texan imprint has just…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Less Bells – ‘Mourning Jewelry’: absolutely affecting drone-post classical forged in loss

JULIE CARPENTER, who records for Texas’ home of boundary-pushing out-rock and drone beauty Kranky, has journeyed from musical academia at the University of North Texas, through session work as a…

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