"The album starts in fine ambient fashion, easy drones rising and falling like a summer tide as waves of static fold into the swell"

"controllers strewn across the floor, broken strings tangled around mic stands and her exhausted face reflected in the now cracked mirror."

"sounds that ricochet around the soundscape with the deconstructed violin and piano of the original before fading to whisper"

"Barely raising a decibel for the best part of two minutes, “Sei’s”introduction gives you ample time to savour every note, word and chirp before it slowly blooms into another thoughtful, blissful piano meditation."

a gentle, graceful and ever so lovely ambient neoclassical arrangement that should be on every introvert's contemplation playlist.

Jan then augments the repetition with some mournful yet graceful bowing, which paves the way for the subtlest of ambient electronic augmentation that bubbles beneath his brother's slowly building violin lament

"unidentified samples and odd machine noises pepper the recording, making the mildly dissonant piano sound positively melodic."

"The new album sees these studio neighbours embarking on another ethereal voyage of discovery to the land where ambient, new age, minimalism and classical meet"

Cowley gets the ball rolling on “Tear” with some minimal, somehow distant keys that set a melancholic tone for the prompt arrival of Tsupryk’s achingly beautiful violin

The album is a start to finish meditative joy, a welcome return from Guidry and an auspicious start to her label.

Medieval abbess, theologian, mystic, polymath and 12th century composer Hildegard von Bingen, and highlight how timeless and useful her ideas and techniques still are

The real stand out tune though is, "Freeform" which enlists the seductive spoken words of Sydney Lowell

Frank in turn creates a gently provocative, suitably restless but not unsettling soundscape to cocoon the sax & cello lines as they develop

the introspective repetition is befriended by a haunting synth line that quivers through the succinct composition piercing the heart

The slowly dissipating notes creating a gently restless ambient bed that mirrors the grandeur and earth frequencies of those vast plains

The LP really runs the neoclassical gamut, from the graceful and genteel title track to the the folky dream-pop of the LP's closing track.

impeccable ambient electronics that provide the synthetic thermals to elevate their acoustic colleagues

Whitelabrecs is a great ambient label. Run by Harry Towell, himself a respected ambient artist

"find a moment to focus if you can on its folkloric, sometimes classical, often musique concrète, yet always beguiling sounds."

Most tracks float effortlessly through the speakers and hang in the air like your wayward uncle’s cigarette smoke,

It’s tender, epic, warm and dispassionate. It’s folk, classical, ambient and cinematic. It’s affecting.

the quivering, emotional strings - which sound live slicing through a warm bubbling subterranean synthscape with a neoclassical grace

Well ignore what I just said about her progressive tendencies, this is gloriously classic harp music - pure and simple.

She too succeeds admirably, peering into the undergrowth at ecosytemic minutiae with her attention to sonic detail