Isabel Pine - Fables (Kranky) [Ambient / Neoclassical]

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I stumbled across Isabel Pine a couple of years ago through her Where The Flowers Grow debut LP, in which she melted her bucolic neoclassical sensibility into refined ambient electronica to provide her natural surroundings in British Columbia with the sort of soundtrack it deserves.

Her latest album sees Kranky records giving her a serious leg up the independent music ladder, and a well-deserved presence in record stores worldwide. I was just about to say that not a lot has changed stylistically in the last couple of years - which is fine by me, but then I read the release notes which said that this LP was recorded two years ago, and was an experiment to take her nature soundtracking to its ultimate conclusion, by creating and recording the music in a wilderness surrounded cabin and actually outside, hence those field recordings you hear are live rather than post-recording additions. And what a success the project was. Rather like the landscape that she inhabits, this is enduring music that will stand the test of time, and which will still sound good when a visiting alien picks up an ambient temperature-warped vinyl copy out of the ashes of our collective self-immolation many years from now.

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Playlist Companion

Find Pine in the Slow Neoclassical Playlist.