texture

Sawako’s sound incorporates looping, field recordings, gentle noises all modified and blended in a chiming drone sound. It’s easy to make it noisier and darker since noisy music tends to sound dark. That’s probably why there are so many crap dark ambient acts. Her latest effort is a testimony to this bright chiming sound, bringing to mind Alvin Curran’s classic Songs and Views of the Magnetic Garden from 1974, or recent works by Stars of the Lid.

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 mix of short soundclips and textures & nervous electronic pieces.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Continuing the sound that I began with today here’s Lokai, the Austrian duo from Mosz records. I tried to remember where I heard Mosz before and realized my fellow Error101 reviewed Gustav a few weeks ago. Lokai is formed by label boss Stefan Németh and guitarist Florian Kmet. Like Pekler’s music there are tense and eerie textures floating in time with occasional guitar picks.