The AbstrAct Observer
We make music.
We run our own abstract project.
“The Path Integral” is here.
“Primes” is here.
“The Boundless” is here.
“The Dawn Identity” is here.
We regard music.
This is an archive of notes and voices about independent releases: ambient, instrumental, electronic, contemporary, experimental, minimalist, whatever.
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Our fourth release is out.
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Observation n.26
Catapult Elpam
Boredom And Other Evil Spirits
○ March 2025 | Label: Cruel Nature Records
■ Genres: Experimental, Downtempo, Drone
■ Rating: 7.4/10
■ Favorite track: “Solitary Happy Hour“► The rythmic construction and the guitar phrase are mesmerized hypnotically. The use of space is interesting and helps not to flatten listening. The subtle variations of the two key elements and the alternating use of silences cleverly sweeps away any static.
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Observation n.25
Passage
Gateway
○ March 2025 | Independent
■ Genres: Drone, Ambient, Dark Ambient, Experimental
■ Rating: 6.6/10
■ Favorite track: “how to get away“► We are alone in the middle of the storm. Resistance is useless, surrender is sweet. So let us fall to infinity, disperse without guilt or hope, into oblivion.
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Observation n.24
KORF AR SON
Rippen 115892
○ December 2024 | Independent
■ Genres: Ambient Piano, Minimalism, Contemporary Classical
■ Rating: 8.2/10
■ Favorite track: “Rippen 115892“► When it comes to minimalism, it’s easy to talk past. “Even I could have done that!”, people always say. So try, if you can. Try to create something so liberating, so saving, so pure.
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Observation n.23
Eleonora Kampe
Breath. Play.
○ February 2025 | Label: Cruel Nature Records
■ Genres: Avant-garde, Experimental, Vocal
■ Rating: 7.2/10
■ Favorite track: “Inner Peace Collapse Straight Ahead“► That’s something interesting and rare. In a world that desensitizes us every day, where our tolerance threshold is getting higher and higher, this crowd of voices makes us feel like a fish tipping over on a boat dock. It distresses us in this anesthetized time.
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Observation n.22
SKOTÓGEN
Of Shadow Landscapes
○ February 2025 | Label: SeeHear Recordings
■ Genres: Drone, Ambient, Electronic
■ Rating: 6.4/10
■ Favorite track: “Reynisdrangar“► It’s cold out there. The wind blows hard. No time to figure out how to protect yourself. No way to find a direction in this desert of ice. Only regret for being there, trapped in boundless spaces, alone in the unspeakable white.
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Observation n.21
Substak
Silent Observers EP
○ March 2025 | Label: See Blue Audio
■ Genres: Ambient, Electronic, Drone, Atmospheric
■ Rating: 7.0/10
■ Favorite track: “Voyage Beyond“► This synth, in all its purity, envelops us and leads us on the journey. The evocation of interstellar space appears natural. The opening major7 arpeggio has the color of discovery; the rest of the harmony reflects the fear of revelations, along with their necessity.
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Observation n.20
Arutan
La España Experimental
○ December 2024 | Independent
■ Genres: Ambient, Experimental, Soundscapes
■ Rating: 8.4/10
■ Favorite track: “Symphonic Descent into the Beast’s Lair“► This work, in all its nuances, is truly remarkable. The natural sounds, often trivialized in this genre and its derivations, are concretely functional to the development of the soundscape this time. Despite the sound complexity, the production of the album is perfectly blended.
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Observation n.19
Sunrise 2×4
The Drowning Of Guanacaste
○ December 2024 | Independent
■ Genres: Field Recordings, Drone, Dark Ambient, Ambient
■ Rating: 7.9/10
■ Favorite track: “The Blood Spilt From the Lizard Will Return to Wash Over us All“►Although the music advances with the patience a windless wave, the main feeling is restlessness. The circular anxiety is exacerbated by guitar interventions, inserted with ingenious incoherence in the sound picture. The choice of instrumental timbres is clever and seductive.
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Observation n.18
Asha Patera
Mana
○ December 2024 | Independent
■ Genres: Drone, Ambient, Electronic, Post-Rock
■ Rating: 7.3/10
■ Favorite track: “Kella“►There is something liberating and threatening at the same time. The bass is like a snake crawling at your feet, but the cascades of high-frequency drones make you look up, searching for shooting stars to ask for hope. You’d better act.
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Observation n.17
Amit Kalra
Eulogiae
○ January 2025 | Independent
■ Genres: Drone, Dark Ambient, Experimental
■ Rating: 6.5/10
■ Favorite track: “Eulogiae“► Here it comes something really abstract. There is this dark drone going on with minimal variations, like something deeply inevitable. This is what the background noise of our lives might sound like. Silence is lost. Harmony, if it ever was, is over.