Rapid Fire Reviews: Ambient, Mostly
This week on the show where I try and often fail to limit myself to shorter reviews so I can cover more records in a year we are covering some ambient or ambient parallel projects. This genre certainly isn't for everyone so if you're reading this, you wonderful soul, lets go on this journey together. Enjoy <3 Daughter - Raum Raum is a collaborative project between Liz Harris AKA Grouper and experimental musician Jefre Cantu-Ledesma. Raum actually released an album prior to this back in 2013 thought I had never even heard of it until I listened to it a few times to make this review. On Daughter the duo are blending a very conventional style of ambient music with two other distinct elements, field recordings and the droning abstraction that dominated Grouper's very good album from last year. That creates some really beautiful and even striking moments like on the opening song Walk Together where the thick ambient haze is suddenly completely interrupted by a random vocal ...