I admit listening to drone is an acquired taste. Although droning has been an integral part of music since the medieval times or even before in the case of music coming from Southeast Asia; electronic textures and drone seem to be the perfect match for this concept to manifest itself as a “genre”. It might [...]

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Now that the winter seems to retreat and a faux air of spring has already arrived in Istanbul, it’s becoming hard to play anything other than spring music in the radioshows. I’m pretty sure though, the weather’s still messed up all around the world, so there’s a whole bunch of you who’ll love this odd [...]

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I’ve been listening on/off to the UK release of Norwegian singer-songwriter Silje Nes‘ Ames Room released on Fat-Cat, and it’s about time to talk a little bit about her music now that the European release of her debut is due. The opener “Over All” is the anathema of “Ames Room”, gentle vocal pop over dissonant [...]

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Fellow Turkish guitarist and composer Erdem Helvacioglu has released a full length on the prestigious contemporary music label New Albion. His 2003 release “A Walk through the Bazaar” on Locust Music was part of the Met Life Series which focuses on field recordings & soundscapes. One of the [...]

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German Stephan Mathieu and English Janek Schaefer are two big names from the “academic” sound composing scene. Their latest collaboration “Hidden Name” is an exceptional journey through ambient textures and field recordings. Recorded during the winter of 2005 in a Victorian rural area in the South of England, this is exceptional in the way that [...]

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As the cold days are ahead, it feels like a must to listen to some ambient. Here, we have a really deep drone-ambient music here. It is one of the best albums I’ve ever heard lately. This is a debut album from Turk Dietrich and Michael Jones who together form Belong. The band started making [...]

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