Ambient Sunday but on a Monday with: Night Cruise, The Loview, and The 24 Project #Ambient #Chill #Electronic
Life got in the way of a post yesterday. So here’s Ambient Sunday but on a Monday. Tracks from Night Cruise, The Loview, and The 24 Project. Genres ranging from ambient to chill to electronica.
Night Cruise is a Los Angeles-based “Jazz rock outfit”. But don’t let that put you off – it nearly did me. They are Micah Keren-Zvi, together with Sariah Mae and producer / engineer Peter Gonzales who came together in 2012. Here’s Oed’s Dream from their Night Cruise EP released on Garden Broom Recordings in New York. The EP is “Inspired by late-night “cruises” through Los Angeles.”
Oed’s Dream is both ambient but also psychedelic electronic. And has a glittering Blade Runner type of feel with its neon lit feel and somewhat melancholic air. It’s an electronic haze of a vaguely synthwave track but with pysche rock structures trying to find their way out. A late night blurred, slightly strung out feel pervades the track. Not one for the paranoid.
The Loview is Ash Smith, a sound artist and beatmaker based in the Southern coastal town of Folkestone, England. It’s one of those places that was a thriving port in the 19th and 20th centuries but then declined and is now having a bit of a renaissance built around a cultural quarter. Whether or not Loview would consider himself part of that, here’s new single Starlight Lullaby.
Starlight Lullaby is a lovely downtempo track. A gentle electric piano sets the almost childlike lullaby motif that provides the central melody of the track. All warming and soothing. Around that, there’s a solid set of hip hop beats with a somewhat lofi edge. There are far-off choral fills in behind.
This is late-night, head-nodding stuff par excellence.
And so to The 24 Project. This is Rodolfo Liverani. He graduated in Pop Keyboards at the Conservatorio A.Boito di Parma and plays in several music projects as a keyboardist. That pop sensibility comes through on featured track Waves.
Waves manages to get a synth pop version of water. This is the fizzing of the bubbles as the waves break on the shore from the burbling melody. It has a little waterly warble. But there’s a rich bass redolent of the depths of the sea and the vastness of the ocean. And there’s a playful delight at work here. A naif expression of pleasure. It’s all charmingly winsome.
Come splash around, the synth pop’s lovely.
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