aphex twin selected ambient works 85 92 rarest

It’s a journey as emotionally charged as Black Swan’s own productions. From the recorded manipulations of Chris Watson setting the scene, to the driving pulses of The Field, and the break in the clouds with Jon Hopkins and Aural Method.

Given the introduction so far, you’d probably expect a full-on drone isolatedmix to follow, but instead Black Swan draws a certain tense and suspenseful tone through numerous styles. It’s vivid ambient music that demands your attention. Black Swan is built for cathedrals at night, with mysterious, sometimes religious connotations, and most importantly, epic walls of sound. Two artists who are great at creating dense and interesting soundscapes, evident by Hotel Neon’s latest album, ‘ Means of Knowing’.īut where Black Swan’s music comes into its own (dark)light, is the continual swirling descent music that pulls you down deeper, in the very best way.

News also just hit that Black Swan and Hotel Neon will be collaborating in 2019. The pair even teamed up in 2012 for a track called, Mist and are also set to collaborate again this summer. It was our good friend 36 who put us on to the cinematic drones of Black Swan’s 2012 album Aeterna, and by way of an introduction, the musical similarities between the two aren’t dissimilar, especially when concerning some of 36’s earlier works. Often using paintings as inspiration, Chihei will start in a similar manner as the painter, by setting a tone and color through his “synthesizer, guitar or effects unit”, further improvising on that sound to make the delicate melody and chords.īlack Swan’smusic goes back to the early days of discovery here on ASIP. It’s classically Japanese in its calmness, purity, and refinement, and in Chihei’s appreciation for finding beauty in the every-day (the Japanese art of Sen no Rikyū). Distant gauzy guitars and finely tuned electronics weave like the waves of his hometown Kanagawa, creating soft and beautiful ambient music that has no limitations in structure or approach. This trial-and-error is coincidentally the perfect elemental breakdown of Chihei’s ambient work. Only then did he realize he was making what other people called ‘ambient’ music. It was this process of elimination that forced him to explore the freeing creativity once you start to remove the idea of any predetermined limitations. Chihei originally set out to recreate in the guise of bands like My Bloody Valentine, but the infamous vocals that accompanied the guitars and gazing became something he couldn’t replicate, often leaving him with just the beat and structure. Growing up enjoying heavy-rock music throughout the clubs of Japan, he would hear basements and secondary rooms playing what he refers to as “softer music”. Chihei Hatakeyama discovered ambient music accidentally.

Aphex twin selected ambient works 85 92 rarest