Listening Diary 20250226

  • Albor Sereno - Boreal - https://alborsereno.bandcamp.com/album/boreal: An EP of short instrumentals which describe themselves as ambient, but are more drum machine propelled motorik breakneck rives through snowy landscapes.
  • Barker - Utility - https://sambarker.bandcamp.com/album/utility: Largely beatless techno from 2019. Not ambient but fillig big spaces. The sort of sequences where everything is being modulated at once that Kraftwerk used amazingly on ‘Tour De France Soundtracks’, but more lying down and closing your eyes rather than racing up a mountain like a herd of cows. Cows on bikes.
  • Tomorrow Comes The Harvest - Evolution - https://tomorrowcomestheharvest.bandcamp.com/album/evolution: Sprawling, hypnotic tabla, synth and drum machine improvisations from Jeff Mills, Jean-Phi Dary and Prabhu Edouard. The highlight is the interaction between the human sounds of tabla and Mills’ astounding mastery of the 808 and 909.