Tag: dark ambient

  • Voices #18

    Voices #18
    ◦ “voices” is the place where we ask, artists reply and you read.
    here we got:

    STGLTZ

    answering some questions. We have already observed his electronic / drone / noise / dark ambient work here.

    [1. IDEA]

    ■ The A. O.: Can you tell us how “WOG 2206“ came to light?

    ► STGLTZ: I recently moved in with my girlfriend and as I went through my stuff, I came across this old function generator, which was given to me by a friend some years ago. It has WOG 2206 written on it. I ran it through several effect pedals, liked the sound and recorded it, that’s how the foundation of the track was made. Then I played around with different things, for example a noisebox, to add more sounds and textures.

    [2. CREATION]

    (more…)

  • Observation n.40

    Observation n.40

    STGLTZ

    WOG 2206

    ○ May 2025 | Independent

    ■ Genres: Electronic / Drone / Noise / Dark Ambient
    ■ Rating: 7.2/10
    ■ Favorite track: “WOG 2206“

    ► We are moving on a black carpet. We are struck by electric flashes, mechanical echoes. We drag ourselves in chains to a forced destination, surrounded by hostile forces. Having no choice, somehow, lifts us from all remorse.

  • Voices #5

    Voices #5
    ◦ “voices” is the place where we ask, artists reply and you read.
    here we got:

    Sunrise 2×4

    answering some questions. We have already observed his field recordings / drone / dark ambient / ambient work here.

    [1. IDEA]

    ■ The A. O.: The track from “The Drowning of Guanacaste” that we prefer is “The Blood Spilt From the Lizard Will Return To Wash Over Us All”. Can you tell us how it came to light?

    ► Sunrise 2×4: Sure, this track was mostly made up of aggravated acoustic guitar samples, recorded onto a microcassette and fed through various effect pedals. The guitar for this specific track was a fuller recording I had earlier from Jarret Luttrull who did the original sample of my older tapeloop song “music for your dying plants ii”
    The electrical hums are inspired by the constant rain and lightning storms that we worked under, and every day they seemed to show up out of nowhere and drown out everything around us. I remember walking a mile on the beach back to my room from the bar, which would have been blissfully picturesque but in the distance I could see a lightning storm move closer and closer to the direction I was heading. So even at moments of complete peace, being alone on the beach there was always a looming threat of electrical storms. At one point a lightning strike took out all the cameras and electronics in one of the rooms we had set up and fried tens of thousands of dollars worth of equipment.
    The title of the track came from an unfortunate event with the passing of one of the older lizards that lived on the property. He had always sunbathed in the same spot near the restaraunt we all ate at, and he passed during our residency there. It’s hard to believe it wasn’t collectively our fault for being there.

    [2. CREATION]

    (more…)

  • Voices #4

    Voices #4
    ◦ “voices” is the place where we ask, artists reply and you read.
    here we got:

    Auditor

    answering some questions. We have already observed his ambient / electronic / dark ambient / experimental work here.

    [1. IDEA]

    ■ The A. O.: The track from “Anachoreisis” that we prefer is “Flooding”. Can you tell us how it came to light?

    ► Auditor: My functional memory was hijacked many years ago. I imagine I was probably teaching myself to play a Gymnopedie or Gnossienne and listening to them on repeat. I have a sampler, an SP-404. I likely fed it things that were then abstractly regurgitated  and reassembled by hand and heart.

    [2. CREATION]

    (more…)

  • Voices #2

    Voices #2
    ◦ “voices” is the place where we ask, artists reply and you read.
    here we got:

    Passage

    answering some questions. We have already observed his drone / ambient / dark ambient / experimental work here.

    [1. IDEA]

    ■ The A. O.: The track from “gateway” that we prefer is “how to get away“. Can you tell us how it came to light?

    ► Passage: “How to get away” is the only song on the album that was recorded in separate sections. The first of the two sections has the only original sound on the album that doesn’t come from a guitar or a synthesizer, instead, what you’re hearing is a music box being played very slowly through a pedalboard. In an earlier version of the track, there was a short acoustic song during the intro, and the track was called “waves” in reference to one of the lyrics. Like the rest of the tracks, I came up with the final title while uploading the album to bandcamp. The title “how to get away” represents, at least for me, the existential dread of living under the American regime.

    [2. CREATION]

    (more…)

  • Voices #1

    Voices #1
    ◦ “voices” is the place where we ask, artists reply and you read.
    here we got:

    rsn | N

    answering some questions. We have already observed his drone / ambient / dark ambient / noise work here.

    [1. IDEA]

    ■ The A. O.: The track from “shift #2” that we prefer is “shift #2.2“. Can you tell us how it came to light?

    ► rsn | N: “shift #2” is a collaboration album with the ambient/drone guitarist N. I worked with him a lot with my band [ B O L T ]. We met for a session together in our studio and started developing ideas without any pre-planning. It soon became clear that we wanted to work with just a semitone shift to create different atmospheres. This resulted in 5 songs, 3 of which ended up on “shift #1” and 2 on “shift #2”.

    [2. CREATION]

    (more…)

  • Observation n.27

    Observation n.27

    rsn | N

    shift #2

    ○ March 2025 | Independent

    ■ Genres: Drone, Ambient, Dark Ambient, Noise
    ■ Rating: 7.1/10
    ■ Favorite track: “shift #2.2“

    ► We face a long journey through sonic paths. As the piece develops, subtle shifts in tone color bring in moments of either fragmentation or expansion, encouraging deep listening, reflection and a sense of timelessness.

  • Observation n.25

    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.

  • Observation n.19

    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.

  • Observation n.17

    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.

  • Observation n.9

    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?

  • Observation n.5

    observation n.5

    Auditor

    Anachoreisis

    ○ January 2025 | Independent

    ■ Genres: Ambient, Electronic, Dark Ambient, Experimental
    ■ Rating: 6.8/10
    ■ Favorite track: “Flooding“

    ► You may recognize Satie’s Gymnopédie No. 1. In this reinterpretation of the masterpiece, lulling nostalgia seems to founder in a maelstrom of torment. What could have been when hope was still alive is gone. It is a brilliant aural rendition of a surrender.