Ambient Sunday with Ziino, and Nick Schofield #Ambient #House #Electronic

Good morning. And it will be when you’ve sampled the delights of Ziino and Nick Schofield.

Ziino is hardly a stranger round these parts. He’s from Dublin, Ireland but currently living in Sweden.. His new offering is 1AM Walk. It’s described as nostalgic dance, which I guess is because it has a rather warm analogue feel. There’s lots of soft pads and nod to Bicep. This is ambient house which doesn’t forget the house origins. Gentle but still with prominent beats. But it still follows its own path. The promise of being something and somewhere better lurks beneath and gives it more of a 6am sunrise walk feel than the quiet darkness of 1am. Delicious.

Nick Schofield is from Montreal, Canada. And I guess he’s more a composer than anything else. His work has more than a little nod to classical forms but thankfully manages to sidestep the neo-classical tag. The track is Ambient Architect for which I’ve included a video as well as the usual listening links. That’s because as Nick explains, “When visiting the National Gallery of Canada, I often interpret painterly gestures, shapes and forms as ways to approach composition. Ambient Architect in particular is lifting from a Paul Klee painting, which features an of combination of this abstract architectural form overlaid on a cloud of soft colours.”

The track is a really beautiful and delicate ambient reverie. It’s a beatless piece that offers held tones and rippling, shifting synth forms on top. It’s a slow stately wander of wonder. It’s one of those tracks in which the only option available is to lose yourself within. It delights at itself and the world as the mood is all ascending phrases and slow strings. Utterly beguiling.

~ by acidted on January 31, 2021.