Category: Ambient
Planet Boelex :: Exist
Country: Finland
Release Date: 2013
Netlabel: Soft Phase
License: Creative Commons 3.0 non-commercial license
“Exist marks the return to this world of the Finnish electronic musician, Planet Boelex. His decision to disappear from the scene following the acclaimed 2010 release, Raja, served to dismay and perplex. Artists with integrity tend to retire when they have nothing more to say, and yet here was one consistently pushing at frontiers. Perhaps his reasons should remain unexplained. This way, we can submit to these six new tracks as if they’ve just floated in from some other realm.
From the opening notes, this is a listening experience designed to evolve. Where Planet Boelex excels is in drawing you back again and again to make endless new discoveries. There is in fact a complex musical gravity at work here. Melodies rise and fall outside of conventional rhythms, sailing with trusted collaborators at times, and the result is quietly awe-inspiring. Whether or not we hear more from Planet Boelex in future, Exist is a timeless offering.” [Soft Phase]
Tracklist
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Rooftop Access :: We Are never Too Close To Ghosts
Country: Australia
Release Date: 2011
Netlabel: laridae
“If you listen closely, you can hear the whispering of the ghosts. They tell stories of the past, of long forgotten memories, of love and loss. Rob Curulli seems to have listened quite a lot to what they have to say. And with his post rock project “Rooftop Access” he has now put these paranormal visions into a full length album, a floating, transcendental collection of guitar improvisations, with cautious but artful production. If you listen closely, you can hear the whispering of the ghosts.” [laridae]
Ballpen :: The Dreams Trilogy
Country: Italy
Release Date: October, 2010
Netlabel: La bèl
From the press release:
“This music is based on how my dreams have been working throughout the years.The thing I like about dreams is that there are no schemes, no shames, no recipes and everything can happily or strangely cohabit with everything else.The way the songs are composed are similar to what I’ve expereinced in my dream so far. Like the hospital in my hometown turned upside down and placed in the middle of a race circuit, or me riding a turtle dressed up like Darth Vader, chasing my auntie along the dock of an unknown port in Malaysia. And other billions of strange and funny combinations of the puzzle – pieces of my life.And everybody’s life I suppose.Some of this dreams are made in a song form, some others are built like a possible dream would develop. Some vocal parts sound like somebody that’s sleep talking and the music is supposed to be what’s sonically going on in his/her head or you can hear that the music melts when somebody is falling asleep. And if you listen at a reasonable low volume you can still hear the music and what’s going on in the room next to yours at the same time.It’s very interesting. I swear.Apart from this, I also think that this music is good for your heart.And, by the way, this album has been recorded inside a cardboard box.”
- The scaffolding dream
- The sea dream
- The hometown dream
- Pass the ball sail the days
- The tap water dream
- Serene nightmare
- Dream episodes
- The magazine dream
- Wonderland cowboys
- Anna Lisa goes to bed
- The bus stop dream
Beginnings :: Waiting on the Weather
Country: UK
Release Date: June 2010
Netlabel: Rural Colours
Beginnings is the alias and solo project of experimental musician Jon Frost, who creates drifting soundscapes with electric guitar and laptop synths. On this his first official release, Jon adopted a semi-improvised approach by recording passages of solo guitar on-the-fly, then later arranging them with electronic layers of tone, harmony and noise to create a sound that is full of shifting textures and ambient melancholy, designed to accompany the waiting moments of any given day.
This is a Rural Colours release (RC001). More details at http://www.ruralcolours.co.uk
Beginnings
Wainting on the Weather
- Pristine Wilderness
- Not Yet Ready For The Day
- Heritage Of Splendour
Ghost Bike :: You Don’t Exist
Country: Israel
Release Date: May 2010
Netlabel: Bandcamp
Ghost Bike
You Don’t Exist (Bandcamp, 2019)
- You Don’t Exist
- Strays
- Tree Age In Death
- Blue Year
- Ghostwriter
- Memory Drain
- Not Physically
- Red Year
- Silence Age
- Last Bus On Earth
- Grave Of The Future
- Yesteryear