Wes Willenbring “Somewhere Someone Else“ – Textura
Excerpt – “Wes Willenbring’s Somewhere Someone Else further testifies to Hidden Shoal’s emergence as a significant player in the ambient electronic music genre. On his debut full-length for the Perth, Australia imprint, the San Francisco-based composer transmutes the natural timbres of piano and electric guitar into crepuscular settings that straddle a space betwixt ambient drones and melodic compositions. Illuminated by shimmering waves of piano radiance, Willenbring’s pieces sometimes imperceptibly drift in and out of focus, while their titles—“In A Quiet Dark Room,” “As You Fade Away,” and “Reverie”—leave little doubt as to the music’s retiring character……Willenbring’s music impresses throughout, but most especially when the echoes of blurred piano notes bleed into the ringing sustain of guitar atmospherics.”
