Check out this fantastic review of the gorgeous My Majestic Star album, “Ideas are the Answer” over at Stylus Magazine. Ian Mathers has managed to write what I have always thought of this album. If you haven’t heard “Ideas are the Answer” then give yourself a gentle kick in the pants, have a listen and then read the review.

Carry The Breeze  My Majestic Star - Carry The Breeze 

Excerpt - “What’s most striking, as those descriptions indicate, is the lack of aggression. My Majestic Star’s songs (as gauzy and atmospheric as Ideas Are the Answer gets these are still definitely songs) reach for the sky like all the best post-rock but you never get the sense he’s trying to blow your face off, even on the relatively high gear “Keep the Keys from Me.” Tellingly, that song is followed with the garbled monologue of “You Greet Me with Night Laughter,” where Mason’s penchant for obscuring the human voice again evokes more than it provokes. There’s a story in there somewhere, but it’s not really our story, and knowing it’s being told winds up being more important than eavesdropping.

“Carry the Breeze” evokes some of the gentler remixes on Mogwai’s Kicking a Dead Pig, but mostly Mason steers well clear of obvious influences. He manages to make music from relative isolation that like a lot of absolutely solo work tends towards the quiet and wounded, but Ideas Are the Answer is optimistic from the title on down; this a record that respects and honors our melancholy without ever falling for the fallacy that it’s a permanent state of affairs.”

Hidden Shoal Recordings, today announced the signing of US ambient artist, Wes Willenbring, to its roster of artists. The Wes Willenbring album “Somewhere Someone Else” will be released on the 26th of February, 2007.

“Somewhere Someone Else” is a work of muted radiance. Sounds of piano and guitar wash in and out of recognition, providing a kind of dislocated comfort. The album slowly breathes in and out with an undeniable melancholic warmth, like a sad dream you don’t want to wake from. Traversing some of the post ambient territories of peers such as Windy and Carl, The Dead Texan and Labradford, “Somewhere Someone Else” manages to carve its own unique sonic and emotional landscape.” - Press Release Excerpt

Yet another glowing review for the wonderful Dilatazione album, “Too Emotional for Maths“, this time at the excellent music blog Boring Machines Disturb Sleep (definitely check this place out, has some fine writing and reviews).

Read the review here.

Venerdì mattina: è tutto come prima, come se niente fosse Dilatazione - Venerdì mattina: è tutto come prima, come se niente fosse