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There’s an almost intimating depth to the sprawling, intricate music of KMRU. On the surface, it nods towards giants of ambient and drone like William Basinski and Tim Hecker, all seismic pads and glacial pacing. On further inspection, though, there’s something else going on here, woven between the processed field recordings that evoke the likes of Manchester’s Space Afrika or Stuart Hyatt’s Field Works project; something a little more dynamic and tactile than the occasionally monolithic impenetrability of many established ambient artists. KMRU’s background may be instructive. He...
The Swiss-American psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross hypothesised the five stages of grief to be a linear experience in her book On Death and Dying – denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Almost six decades have passed since its publication has soaked into popular culture, and while she retracts many of the mistranslations that have spiralled from her work, its factual appearance can still provide a comfort for those dealing with their own loss, glad for the theoretical company. Following the death of his biological father last autumn, Convocations is a new 49-track alb...
Bandcamp / Buy As part of the Olympia punk scene in the late 1990s, Kevin Doria and Joe DeNardo knew how to make the most out of minimalism. Their two-decade about-face as Growing, from aggressive noise veterans to contemporary drone trailblazers, has stretched that rubric into some blissful territory. Formed in 2001, Growing began by taking the essential disembodiment of ambient music andâas their name hintedâfleshing it out. The dense drone sculptures and Earth-like amperage on albums like 2004âs Soul of the Rainbow and the Harmony of Light catered to doom heads and se...
In this series, Selections, we invite DJs, producers and label heads to dig into their digital crates and share the contents of their Bandcamp collections. While hearing new music played out by your favourite selectors has been put on hold as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, it’s never been easier, or more important, to support the artists and imprints releasing tracks, albums, EPs and comps in the midst of all the madness. In lieu of opportunities to discover new records on the dancefloor, Selections will give you the chance to nab sounds from the crates of tastemakers, and support th...