Ambient Sunday with: Lb Burton, and Nctrnm #Ambient #Minimal #Drone @nctrnm

Ambient Sunday is a game of two halves this morning. In the first half we have Lb Burton with some dreamy ambient, followed by Nctrnm with something minimal but earthy.

Lb Burton is from Valdivia in Southern Chile. His work is mainly ambient but with an experimental edge. “Lb Burton es un artista electrónico, radicado en la ciudad de Valdivia (Sur de Chile), que experimenta con elementos de la música  Ambient, utilizando texturas oscuras, difusas y minimalistas.”

And that experimental edge is apparent on featured track Fly Away. This is a beatless tune with lots of whooshing synths and an almost bit of Whale song element for that 90s throwback feel. All very dreamy and drifting stuff. But everything is also just that bit off-kilter, bent subtly out of shape to give it a slightly unsettling experimental edge. Cracking stuff.

Nctrnm (Matthew McGilvery) is an electronic producer from Ontario, California. I never knew there was an Ontario n the USA as well as Canada. Nctrnm’s work focused on a rather minimal aesthetic.

The featured track is Past from new album NOVA. Nctrnm says of it that, “Past is an ambient song in C# major at the tempo of 119 beats per minute.” And yet it really doesn’t sound anywhere near that fast. It has a minimal, slowly turning style focused on a thrumming bass line that rumbles its way through the track. Over the top comes a lo-fi and almost primitive sounding synth line to give a whisp of melody and an IDM air. And that’s basically your lot. This pared down style gives it a focused ambient feel that delivers on the intent to deliver an, “aural escape from the tumult of 2020.” Strangely grounded and meditative.

~ by acidted on March 7, 2021.