Adonai's Ambient/Noise reviews
 

Adonai's Ambient/Noise reviews

I know there aren't many ambient/noise fans, so I want to popularize the genre. For those who are trying to get into ambient or are just not experienced much in ambient, you can request a track/album review and you will know if it's any good (would be useful for new people in ambient). Leave a message in this topic, PM me or contact me via Skype (but I'm really rarely on Skype).


Reviews :

Aythis - Glacia

This sounds promising, I am hoping to find plenty of new ambient artists (not too huge on the noise side of things, but you never know)

I'd be interested in the noise side, definitely.

I will be interested in both :D

OK, will write some soon :D If you are interested if some artists are good or not, post them here.

a "best of" could be useful, for artists like merzbow, wolf eyes, NON, kk null... maybe whitehouse?

Japanoise is baaaad. Totally non-atmospheric. Wolf eyes are cool. NON is also cool, but a little bit weird. But the idea is cool.

i'd say that's a generalization when it comes to merzbow, but at the same time it's kind of the point. dehumanized, cold, industrial -- it reflects rather than distracts.

Akira Yamaoka is a good one to review. He is one of the best ambient music composers out there. Only his Silent Hill soundtracks are ambience though.

Aythis - Glacia [2009]
 

The album is composed of an ethereal voice, sad/funeral/depressive keyboard melodies and orchestral/military drums. The tracks are fluid-like and very atmospheric. It makes you think about many things : life, death, your future, things you can/can't do etc. The atmosphere itself is very dark, but the haunting melodies make it a bit "lighter" than it seems to be. The music is very deep, so you can relax and fall asleep very easily. Sometimes you start listening and you wake up from a some kind of trance only when the whole album is over. At least I do. The album doesn't share any concepts of noise ambient, so the tracks aren't chaotic and have a melody and sometimes a slow, soothing orchestral drum beat. If there's a piano melody in the song, it just takes over your mind and drives you away. It's really amazing.

The voice. I tried to figure out the lyrics on my own a few times, but I failed horribly. Every time I started to listen carefully to the voice, I was fascinated with it and just couldn't concentrate anymore. So I suggest you to just enjoy this beauty.

My favourite track is "Le Temps d'un voyage". It starts with a sound of rain and then a slow, haunting keyboard theme fades in. The voice in this track perfectly suits the instumentals and the rare, quiet drum kicks are a great addition to the lyrical, mystical atmosphere.

In conclusion, I would recommend this to ALL male human beings. Aythis is a woman and since ambient music is a part of your soul, we (men) can explore women' soul and perception by using the small window into their winds provided by Glacia and her album.

Maybe include a you tube video or two so we can give the artist a listen as the review makes we want to give this a listen.

Definatly interested in this!

By ambient do you mean the post-rockish stuff like Eluvium, Hammock, Epic45, and the like or the electronic/chillout stuff like BOC, Carbon Based Lifeforms, Biosphere, etc.?

RATM : ambient is ambient. But chillout is also a part of it.

jackhammer : I wanted to add one, but there weren't any tracks on YT that would make you interested in it. In fact, there are only two.

helios, tim hecker, stars of the lid, to name a few... if ur interested in ambient/drone music

henry : if you would like me to review an album, give me the exact name of it.