There are albums that I keep for the early hours, for times when everything is quiet, when I can feel that life outside my windows has slowed down and people are asleep. Those albums have always had a very special place in my record collections as they resonate so strongly with me: late at night, [...]
Wil Bolton is a british composer who caught my attention with his superb debut Time Lapse released on Hibernate in 2010. I remember quite clearly how beautiful and delicate his music sounded the first time I heard it. It was ambient music as defined by Brian Eno, “An ambience is defined as an atmosphere, or [...]
It is only been six months since Nils Quak’s last album This Once Silver Sky but something has changed quite radically for the Cologne-based composer. The dark and menacing drones, explored thoroughly in the past, have now disappeared and been replaced by a sound more open and inviting, while being very tactile and intimate. It [...]
After various projects on labels such as Dead Pilot, Experimedia or Rural Colours, English musician and composer Clem Leek returns to Hibernate, where he released Holly Lane last year, an album of incredible depth and atmosphere. This time, he presents a 19-minutes long form on the label’s 3”CDr series, where a mixture of processed guitar, [...]
