A succession of sounds that we like ▼
TRACKLIST
► Gastr del Sol – Eight Corners
► Auditor – Flooding
► The Abstract Observer – i: to devise, to overcome
► Asha Patera – Chapter
► lebenerde – distanz
► Franco Battiato – I cancelli della memoria
► Harry Mason – Mae
► Keith Fullerton Whitman – Modena
○ Jan 2026 | Label: See Blue Audio
■ Genres: Abstract / Experimental
■ Rating: 7.2/10
■ Favorite track: “Empty Halls”
► This is built around a relentless industrial white noise loop that engulfs the listener from the outset. The muffled noise forms a harsh, monolithic presence. Rare echoes of electronic rumblings and distant pulses intermittently surface, like signals breaking through interference. These sparse events offer fleeting points of orientation before being swallowed again. It’s an uncompromising experience, where tension between stasis and emergence becomes the central expressive force.
[1. IDEA]
■ The A. O.: Can you tell us how “Becquerel” came to light?
► Fletina: I was reading about the French physicist Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel and his discovery of ‘The Photovoltaic Effect’ while I was experimenting with some recent field recordings of mine, and without me being particularly conscious of it – I was soundtracking the story of Becquerel’s early struggles and his eventual scientific breakthrough in my own head, and trying to sculpt sounds to match my vision, so the whole thing happened in a symbiotic kind of way. I wanted to make it a longform album-length piece to reflect the time and patience it must have took for Becquerel to make his discovery, while also keeping everything pretty vague and open to interpretation…
Through abstract sonic experimentation with room tones and various field recordings I found that I had created a vaguely dark and confined atmosphere that suited the theme of the release. The sound artist Anne-F Jacques described it as ”simultaneously full of sound but with a kind of hollow open space in the middle”. Given how abstract and ambiguous the piece (and my work in general) is – it’s pretty difficult to talk about, but the whole thing makes sense in my own head…
[2. CREATION]
(more…)○ 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.
○ 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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