Review: Nimbes is the soundtrack to a 15-minute audio visual piece of the same name by filmmaker Joanie Lemercier and Emptyset's James Ginzburg. The music itself is a collaboration between Ginzburg and Yair Elazar Glotman, a Berlin-based sound artist who recently released an album on the Italian ambient label Glacial Movements. Subtle Emptyset snarls lurk in the background of the title-track, with rumbling double bass, cellos, plucked strings and dramatic drums taking up the foreground in a cinematic piece of sound design. Glotman provides his own version of "Nimbes" that's devoid of much bass, instead overcast atmospheres and blustery orchestral movements dominate. Eric Holm, who earlier this year released his debut album on Subtext, delivers a clanking, industrial remix, somehow adding even more tension to a record best described as foreboding.
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