Aviram Spies ensures the connection between title and experience. A work that perfectly encapsulates the implications of its name – On The Edge of an Endless Forest takes you to precisely the purity and vastness promised. The sound is that of a nostalgic movie-made classical realm, familiar but unpredictable, and softly spellbinding to let play and surround you.
Neo Classical
Intertwine the pulsating bass and beat combo of Gotye with an intoxicating but subtle blend of jazz, trip hop and natural word ambience, and you’re almost on track to imagine the creative embrace of Koyla and Tensky’s Nomads.
The immense weight of static appears as if like a sudden storm of power and presence. Those choir-like voices still linger amidst the outer layers though – a wealth of humanity clinging onto its calm and sanity, as the wires and weight of the future rain down around them.
“I’d describe my music as jazz, but in the widest definition of the word. I’m allowing myself to constantly explore different genres, including ambient music, funk, electronic classical/orchestral and pretty much everything in between. This includes music for film, TV and video games.”
Perhaps surprising that this is the first project of this name to cross our path – by all accounts, many of you reading this or experiencing this album are indeed Melophiles yourselves. Abhi Ananda, however, seems to encapsulate that quality with the clear complexity, versatility, skill and unwavering heart of these eight recordings.
Evocatively paying tribute to the existence of the lifeless yet living aspects of the natural world, Neo Classical composer Basil Babychan unites organic and electronic elements with subtlety and purpose, throughout the deeply ambient, melodically intriguing Insentinent Nature.
An audio journey to lift you from your lull – Yun Fei crafts an all-consuming work of art; organic layers of oriental instrumentation and tribal rhythms, presenting an uplifting and aptly celebratory listen, for Glory.
Featuring cascading layers of organic musicianship, progressing from delicacy and calm through distortion and breathtaking pace, Miserlou showcases a defiant passion for the process of audio storytelling.
Extending its warmth and wonder by way of cultural and musical vastness and connection, SPRUCE RITUAL: THE WAY THE EVENING SPEAKS is a wonderfully original, musically masterful and evocative album.
Born in Pakistan and backed by years of studying Contemporary, Jazz and Film Music in London, England, Khatri is a composer and producer with a uniquely contemplative and skillful degree of purpose to his work.
Skilfully intertwining the delicacy of choir-style vocals and retro electronic synths, Play Master Frequency craft an enthralling journey through atmospheric and emotional depths, for Noor Path.
Musically this entire album is unrivalled in its superiority as a fully-loaded, compelling and awe-inspiring journey.