Ambient Sunday goes beat driven with Nicosonoio, and Pleya
Two tracks this Ambient Sunday. We have Pleya but first up Nicosonoio.
Nicosonoio is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and songwriter from Italy. His music usually fuses electronics with the sounds of nature, magnetic tapes, post-classical and pop culture. And that’s the mostly case on Ice Melting.
Ice Melting takes nature and blends with with some lovely gentle IDM. There are shades of Global Communication here. Perhaps even a bit of the more pastoral moments of Boards of Canada.
The classical influences are minimised as electronics forge an uncertain way forward. This gently riffles like falling snow. It’s all a bit watery and wonky.
Nicosonio says “At the beginning what this music conveyed to me was the transition between winter and summer, where snow and ice give way to new forms of vegetation and life.” The track charts that gentle transition and with the hopeful keyboards offers hints of renewal and new life. Fabulous.
And so to Pleya (Leonardo Abal) from Argentina. This is almost not ambient. It’s quite a forward track for downtempo.
Taken from Pleya y los Antiguos Astronautas, featured track Andromy is a cosmic synth experience put through an experimental blender. This is tripped out 70s synths mixed with an almost indie drum pattern and a whole load of drugs that warp everything.
This gives the track a wonderfully woozy and slightly experimental air. Everything is there but also up for grabs with a thrillingly uncertain sense of where it will land. Cosmic so far out it might never return.
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