Tag: ambient
Peter Broderick: Float 2013
I am open to all styles of music and encourage anyone and everyone to partake in the process of creating music, regardless of their level of technical expertise. My aim is to approach music with a sense of openness and wonder, and to never be…
Bruno Sanfilippo: Piano Textures 4
Born in Buenos Aires but based in Barcelona since the year 2000, Bruno Sanfilippo is a classically trained pianist and composer whose music lies at the confluence of the modern classical, electro acoustic and ambient genres. Initially launched in 2007 and assimilating diverse influences gathered…
Kiasmos
Initiated around 2009 as an intriguing fusion project aimed at exploring “the area in-between Ólafur’s more acoustic, piano-based solo work and Janus’s synth-heavy electro pop”, Kiasmos quickly turned into a hugely successful dance act on the festival circuit worldwide. Since 2014, both musicians have been constantly…
Conor Walsh: The Front
I like the idea of conveying a lot through a little Growing up and based in Swinford, Co. Mayo, Conor Walsh is a self-taught musician and who started composing on the guitar in his late teens. Quoting Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works 85-92 as a…
A Winged Victory for the Sullen: Atomos
Noticing the reaction of his group of dancers when playing them the music from classical/ambient duo A Winged Victory for the Sullen’s self-titled début album, British choreographer Wayne McGregor commissioned new material from the band for his upcoming modern dance project. Comprised of two American musicians…
Max Richter: From Sleep
Born in Germany but raised in England, modern classical composer Max Richter is a prolific artist who has already scored extensively for dance companies, art installations, animation or cinema. A classically trained pianist, Max Richter is also a keen listener of post-rock and punk music,…
Hidden Orchestra: Archipelago
Traditional jazz drummers are usually only given a few bars to shine, and consequently these short solos are bursting with brilliant ideas and glimpses of pure rhythmic feel. I began to isolate and reprogram fragments of these rhythmic gems […] read the cover notes to…
Nubus: Tape Sketches
Based in Limerick city, Ireland, Paddy Mulcahy (aka Nubus) is a young classically trained composer and producer. Having developed a mostly ambient electronica sound to date, the musician has just released Tape Sketches on 1st June 2015 last, his first solo piano EP recorded entirely…