Glacial Movements Schallplatten & CDs

Review: Glacial Movements is the perfectly named home for this collaborative album between San Francisco-based musician and sound artist Brock Van Wey aka Bvdub and Italian sound artist Netherworld. As the title suggests, this is a record about finding the balance between the respective sounds of the two artists. And they manage it perfectly across cold and icy dub depths, wide open frozen ambient tundras and arching chords that bring beauty and light in the most slow and subtle of ways.

Review: Reportedly inspired by its' creator's thoughts about the impact of humans on the earth (and specifically the sentient life we share the planet with), Alexander Gluck's second album as Aware is an undeniably bittersweet affair. He's already proved adept at crafting atmospheric ambient pieces underscored by exceptional sound design, and Requiem For a Dying Animal takes this up a notch - not only by wresting every last drop of emotional weight from his chords, melodies and musical motifs, but also thanks to a subtle air of neo-classical grandiosity. The four cuts on show - with the near 18-minute closing cut offering a genuinely breath-taking conclusion - combine to create one evocative, slowly-shifting piece smothered in experimental sounds and tweaked field recordings.