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.16
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painting the sky
○ February 2025 | Independent
■ Genres: Ambient, Electronic, Drone
■ Rating: 6.2/10
■ Favorite track: “a bridge above, a river below”► There is a warm drone, and we all know what is going to happen. It will probably last forever. But not here: there is a sudden harmonic modulation, two steps above keeping the major key, and after that another minor, ascending climb to the summit. It’s time to close your eyes and breathe.
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observation n.15
Fox Ridge Park
The Waning Moon Fan Club
○ February 2025 | Independent
■ Genres: Ambient, Electronic
■ Rating: 7.0/10
■ Favorite track: “Let Them Eat Flowers“► The synth phrase is really charming. Even though it’s in a loop, it’s not easy to find the beginning and the end of it, and that’s its secret. Maybe it is not the right way to say it, but it’s like Boards of Canada have gone on vacation.
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observation n.14
House Of Quiet
A Crooked Stick
○ February 2025 | Independent
■ Genres: Experimental, Ambient, Noise, Lo-Fi
■ Rating: 6.6/10
■ Favorite track: “Ceterus Paribus”► There is a guitar and a beautiful repeated ninth chord, suitable – in its harmonic indeterminacy – to adapt to the emotional state of the listener. A desert at sunset lies before our eyes. We must cross it, whether we like it or not. Distant noises will accompany us on the way.
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observation n.13
Fletina
Becquerel
○ September 2024 | Independent
■ Genres: Field Recordings, Experimental, Abstract
■ Rating: 6.5/10
■ Favorite track: “Becquerel“This is not music: it’s a mirror. You try to look for something and you get nothing but yourself. So, since we do not know you listener, here is our review:
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observation n.12
Suki Quasimodo
Datura 01
○ January 2025 | Independent
■ Genres: Electronic, Ambient, Dub
■ Rating: 8.5/10
■ Favorite track: “I Feel Like“► Well, just to be clear: this track is quite a masterpiece. There’s something charmingly hypnotic about the words, the syncopated beat, the echoes. We got totally captivated by the texture, every spark of this beauty has become precious and necessary in our head. And when the synth gets in: oh boy. We won’t forget this music.
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observation n.11
Bee Resort
The Bee Resort
○ January 2025 | Independent
■ Genres: Ambient, Electronic
■ Rating: 7.8/10
■ Favorite track: “A Mind Consumed By Meaningless Data“► There is a kind of inevitable circular path that digs a deeper and deeper furrow. Minor add2 chords paint a disperate picture. The synth bass moves 4 steps downward over and over again, buried within Freud’s repetition compulsion. This path is interrupted in an extremely significant pause around the middle of the track, only to resume inexorably.
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observation n.10
Risbo Tazeg
Nocturnal Reverie
○ January 2025 | Independent
■ Genres: Experimental, Ambient, Electronic
■ Rating: 6.8/10
■ Favorite track: “Sewer Sea“► In the midst of dark drones echoes, synhts phrases burst in. That’s intriguing because it emerges as an act of rebellion against the swamp that surrounds us. We can stand, somehow.
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observation n.9
Patrick Corcoran
Unknowns
○ December 2024 | Independent
■ Genres: Dark Ambient, Drone, Experimental
■ Rating: 6.4/10
■ Favorite track: “III“► We are in Eliot’s “Waste Land”. There is no matter, nothing can be seen. The echo of a sacred chant rises and falls on the first three deegres of a major scale, like a lifeline in a desert of ice. Does salvation exist?
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observation n.8
Nate Lewis
Line Swinger
○ January 2025 | Independent
■ Genres: Ambient, Experimental, Electronic
■ Rating: 7.0/10
■ Favorite track: “The Hand“► Listening gravitates around a distant kick drum. As much the synths create an underlying tension, this pulsing core offers a safe haven. The harmonic use of bichords is cleverly elusive. The Doric mode reflects, in its resolutions, the search for relief from background noise.
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Observation n.7
Leit Motif (aka Fragile X)
Vestige
○ January 2025 | Label: See Blue Audio
■ Genres: Ambient, Electronic, Atmospheric
■ Rating: 8.0/10
■ Favorite track: “Welcome Home“► This can make you either hunter or prey. It’s up to you. You can follow the main beat and march, mirroring the strength of your stride, or run in circles trying to escape your fears. The space is wide, you cannot be alone.