Ambient Sunday with Neptune Orizon, C Y G N, and Pop X #Ambient #Downtempo #Chill
Easter’s Ambient Sunday comes with tunes from Neptune Orizon, C Y G N, and Pop X.
Neptune Orizon (Florian Martinez) is an electronic music producer and multi-instrumentalist from France. His work has a dreamy, slightly cinematic quality.
Here’s Spring from his new release Seven Relics. This is a lovely introspective ambient track. It weaves its way between smooth neo-classical and cinematic. There’s a lovely interplay through this tune between strings and Glockenspiel. But it’s a lush track filled with handpan, cello and even a bit of sax. It offers a keening sense of slow seasonal renewal.
And so to France with producer C Y G N. Here’s Lose Her Way, the opening track off C Y G N’s new album, LA BOHÈME. The album is pitched as, “a 15 song offering that returns the French producer to his lofi roots.”
Lose Her Way is an exemplary ambient study beats track. It has solid hip hop beats with just a touch of lofi. But around that is built an edifice of romantic guitar work and ethereal wordless vocal elements. It’s a dense, textured piece that has a deepness which is utterly delicious. Surface noise and a slow sureness of touch is the hallmark of this track. Just Chill.
And finally to Italy with Pop X and their new release Enter Sandwich Remix, an EP of remixes of 2021’s Enter Sandwich LP. Pop X is an Italian musical group and collective formed in Trento in 2004 having as its only permanent member and founder Davide Panizza.
I’m featuring a remix of SEMIVULGAR from the EP by Kuzu who offers as biog, “A random Italian guy [from Livorno] with a love for experimental and electronic music that tries to portrait his imaginations into glitches and sound design.”
Happily no glitches here. But there is a blend between a relaxed chilled sound and the whirrs and clicks of IDM. It’s a winning combination here. The melody has a lush warmth with the beats and clicks undercutting it to leave the track in a delicious balance. There are far off trumpet sounds and a sense of hazy distance from the field recordings.
A mix of organic and inorganic for relaxed contemplation.
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