Released in 2019 on Eremite Records Recorded in 2017 Format: LPx2, Screen-printed jacket
Tag: Minimalist
Fripp & Eno – Evening Star
Tortoise – Millions Now Living Will Never Die
Originally released in 1996 on Thrill Jockey Records 2012 pressing
Dawn of MIDI – Dysnomia
An acoustic trio of piano, upright bass, and drums utilize creative extended techniques to play evolving minimalist compositions of mutating grooves, polyrhythms, and textures.
Harold Budd/Brian Eno – Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror
Enveloping blankets of piano and synthesizers that are mostly beautifully soothing, but occasionally venture down shadowy alleyways full of eerie suspense.
Brian Eno – Ambient 1: Music for Airports
Information: Released in 1978 on PVC Records Format: LP
Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society – Magnetoception
Meditative jazz explorations of space, rhythm and textures inspired by Miles Davis’ ambient jazz pieces, Gnawa ceremonial music of North Africa, the spiritual jazz of Pharoah Sanders and Don Cherry, and the mutating minimalism of Steve Reich.
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Jim O’Rourke – Bad Timing
An introspective, instrumental journey of pastoral fingerstyle guitar, occasionally joined by piano, synth and horn arrangements
Western Skies Motel – Settlers
Somber ambient-folk with layers of delicate, circular fingerpicking and sparse arrangements of droning harmonium, piano, guitar feedback and the occasional chirping crickets. The soft reverb dampens everything like a light drizzle over the American prairie
