Having climbed higher and higher with each new evocative and stylishly original release from recent years, Lithuanian-Canadian songwriter and producer Aistis returns this year with a sublime new album, and continues to highlight the profound thoughtfulness of both his songwriting and musicianship.
Cinematic
Swedish composer and musician Brebu commands the stillness and calm, with the beautifully delicate and purposeful tones of his instrumental work Carved Waves.
Crafted around a sort of haunting and delicate ambiance, with a consistent drum and bass rhythm that’s familiar but non-intrusive, the track is all at once nostalgic and confidently original.
Cinematic production brings together neo-classical strings and the higher-intensity of EDM, as we enter a structurally impassioned and powerful original song, from an elusive Celia Frost.
The new EP, A Moment of Deathlessness, presents a first listen that’s captivating for its sense of cinema, its groove, its harmonies and imagery – the presentation and vibe intriguing alone for the creative depth and originality. Then to consider the poetry at its core, this whole project being a tribute to the iconic Emily Dickinson, is to appreciate the finely selected details and stories that influenced such a creative direction.
From the mysterious album THE DARK CITY, Vger delivers an ominous electronic ambiance and track, in the form of the story-telling sci-fi instrumental Approaching The City. This introduction to the project welcomes a state of intrigue and uncertainty, balancing rhythmic synths with warped synth melodies and an eighties progression that’s aptly cinematic.
Seamlessly intertwining the familiar and the original, Shannon Burchett collaborates with artist and performer Beatriz Villar, for this bold and evocative ode to Giacomo Puccini’s Nessun Dorma.
Following on from the fiercely immersive genre fusion of Adagio One, rising artist and composer David Ratmoko manages yet again to enthral, engage, and impress modern listeners, with the darkness and hypnotic depth of Adagio Two.
Composer Ube Palomino captures the imaginative freedom of instrumental expression, with the uniquely evocative, intimate to cinematic arrangements of The Hinterlands Suite.
Coming in at over six minutes of exploration, Time Irrelevant sees its listeners plunged into a web of multiple layers of distorted guitars and classic eighties rhythms. At the same time, subtle waves of synth and electronic instrumentation meet with organic, acoustic ones, to craft something that’s both a looping realm of comfort, and a consistently evolving delivery of rising anticipation.
Creatively shaking the foundations of modern composition, David Ratmoko presents the deep ambient synths and Baroque electronic arpeggios of Prelude One – an iconic redirection with an unpredictable shift towards trap rhythms and darker, cinematic sound-design as things progress.
Creative composer Pinda Dhanoya collaborates with Soprano vocalist Caroline Joy Clarke, for the dramatic and powerful new work Kyrie I.
Featuring a live orchestral explosion of energy and sound, Kyrie I spans just one minute in full, but instantly captures attention for its depth and devotion to the moment.