Tim Corpus - Place of Rest (Self Release) [Ambient]
- The Slow Music Movement
- 24 minutes ago
- 2 min read
Interestingly, for someone who just released an ambient album, Chicago's Tim Corpus studied percussion performance at university, although he later went on to master in music composition. As well as being a dab hand at striking and shaking things, he's adept on several instruments as well as today's DAWs, and although initially focussed on more traditional classical composition, he's been stretching out into classical adjacent ambient work in recent times.
At some stage of our lives we could all use some assistance sleeping, and Corpus' new album is here to help. It's smartly timed as a ninety-minutes listen - the length of a sleep cycle, and as you would expect is a gentle listen, although initially also gently restless, as if to mirror those turns and squirms as you get comfortable on the mattress, as well as soundtrack those last reflections on the day's events.
The album opens with "Deep Roots", which floats serenely through the speakers, blanketing the listener in its subtle electroacoustic folds. Next up is "4-7-8", named after Dr. Andrew Well's relaxing, thought-cleansing breathing technique - something that I use regularly and can attest to, and which has a suitably Eastern meditative quality to it. Hopefully, by now, you're no longer conscious, so the album extends the initial ten-minute track lengths to twenty-five minutes and heads into long-form ambient territory with three barely morphing soundscapes that gradually diminish in sonic presence, to echo the deeper phases of sleep that you're hopefully experiencing.
It's a nicely thought-out, well crafted horizontal listen with the electroacoustic elements uniting in soporific purpose rather than vying for attention, and which bodes well for Corpus' ambient future.
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