ambient
Reissue CDs Weekly: Saint Etienne, Honey Ltd., Chas & Dave, ZTTSunday, 28 July 2013
Various Artists: Saint Etienne Present Songs for a Central Park PicnicThis is the perfect compilation for days when heat brings an enervation so overwhelming it’s possible only to bask like a seal flopped on a rock. Compiled by Saint Etienne, Songs... Read more... |
The Orb Exclusive: Thomas Fehlmann DJ mix and Alex Paterson interviewWednesday, 12 June 2013
If anyone in British music still deserves that rinsed-to-death term "maverick" it is Battersea-born "Dr" Alex Paterson. From roadie for postpunk industrialists Killing Joke in the early Eighties, he went on to work as an A&R then - originally... Read more... |
CD: Morris Cowan - Six DegreesMonday, 15 April 2013
Some 20 years ago, a series of albums called Artificial Intelligence on WARP Records aimed to promote techno as home-listening music. They made up a frequently sublime collection, but unfortunately the word “intelligence” in their title was picked... Read more... |
Preview: Denovali Swingfest LondonThursday, 11 April 2013
We're pleased to announce The Arts Desk is a media partner of the Denovali Swingfest London on 20 and 21 April at London's The Scala. It's a good match, as Swingfest and the Denovali label, like The Arts Desk refuse to acknowledge... Read more... |
CD: Ulrich Schnauss - A Long Way to FallWednesday, 23 January 2013
The last proper Ulrich Schnauss album – there have been collaborations and pseudonymous outings since – was going to be hard to top. Goodbye, released in 2007, breathtakingly took shoegazing further out than ever before: although gossamer, its sonic... Read more... |
CD: Brian Eno - LuxSaturday, 10 November 2012
Brian Eno’s latest is the musical equivalent of slow food: something to savour in a state of quietude and away from the stresses of accelerated time. The ambient genre of which he was a pioneer has, in other hands, drifted into a kind of quality... Read more... |
Jóhann Jóhannsson, Hauschka, Dustin O'Halloran, BarbicanSaturday, 19 May 2012
“Post-classical” the FatCat label call it, and well they might. All three of the acts who played at the Barbican last night in one way or another used the instrumentation of the classical concert hall but in a way that was completely dislodged from... Read more... |
theartsdesk video exclusive: BlacksmifTuesday, 28 February 2012
Londoner Yemi Olagbaiye is the model of a new generation musician for whom the dissolution of genre categories means not homogenisation but an opportunity for greater individuality. Olagbaiye grew up playing guitar music, then moved on to drum'n'... Read more... |
CD: Santiago Latorre - EcliptícaWednesday, 22 February 2012
There's a whole world of music out there that floats in the zone somewhere between jazz, club music, sound art, contemporary classical and meditative new age background sound – so much of it that it all too easily blurs together. But there are... Read more... |
CD: Message to Bears - Folding LeavesWednesday, 08 February 2012
Oxford's Message to Bears project – a fluid collective around one Jerome Alexander – is one of music's best-kept secrets. In one and a half albums in 2008-9, Alexander created a new kind of ambient music: floating, rarefied chamber pieces in which... Read more... |
CD: Portico Quartet – Portico QuartetWednesday, 25 January 2012
Although they’ll still be filed under jazz, Portico Quartet’s third album takes them even closer to the ambient and trance they’ve been edging towards since they attracted attention in 2007 after the release of their Mercury-nominated debut, Knee... Read more... |
Download: VersA Beatz - ImogenSunday, 22 January 2012
I've seen some genre intersections in my time, but gangsta ambient takes the biscuit. Baghdad born South Londoner VersA Beatz began as a grime producer, but like many has moved from that genre's hyped-up energy into the slower, more menacing... Read more... |
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