Thursday 13 June 2019

Arjen Schat - Primal

This is one of my favourite recent discoveries from the very talented Arjen Schat. It is a collection of ambient tracks which are all average 10 minutes long. The youtube version presents them as a continuous mix. They are abstract, beatless and very amorphous - like Steve Roach's best stuff, but highly refined so there are no breaks in the magical hypnosis of the sound. They are like clouds of vapour, drifting, swirling and evolving, never settling but always changing around a centre. Impossible to grasp but compelling to listen to. A real treat and I mean it as a great compliment to say this has been my "get me off to sleep" music for a while recently and it works very well.

Also available to download from Bandcamp https://arjenschat.nl/




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