Excerpt: “Modern classical hasn’t felt this young in years! … If you love melancholic piano sounds that bathe you with warm and wet kisses; if you like ambient textures exploring the silence and space; if you like muted guitar and blurry soundscapes that move with synthetic and organic sighs… then Wes Willinbring has a treat for you….Years of recordings, collaborations, and explorations yielded this perfect soundtrack to an emotional repose.”

Headphone Commute

Translated excerpt: “Californian composer Wes Willenbring is a new artist engaged in the exploration of guitar and piano territories… the title suggests its pleasantly indeterminate nature, centred around slow, melancholic waves of piano and soft notes of guitar… an album of delicate development, multiple shadings and emotional depth… Its minimal, sonorous flow involves the continuous manipulation of the elements… like the post-rock refinements of Labradford and the modern neoclacissism of Library Tapes.”

Ondarock

“Willenbring employs a piano and a guitar, but for the most part you’d never know it, as most of the tracks here are huge slow moving sheets of pure sound, blurred and abstract. Even the ones that do start with bits of piano, or offer up bits of strum and twang, gradually become more and more washed out, gorgeous wet windshield smears, sparkling with muted colors, glistening and glimmering, it’s the music of light reflecting off wet pavement, the sound of trees heavy with snow and ice, of home movies of long car trips, of out of focus landscapes from the past. Melodies that creep and drift, gradually growing heavier and heavier, the clouds gathering, until it’s a slow drive through thick fog, shapes and sounds barely visible. But it’s those glimpses of piano, or fragments of guitar that ground the music on Somewhere Someone Else, keep it from being “drone music”, imbue it with warmth, emotion, hidden melody, dark secrets, the songs may end up adrift on a glimmering black sea, but they began on the shore, within site of home and family, gradually moving farther and farther away, the familiar fading away, slipping slowly into the unknown. Absolutely gorgeous. Dreamy dark meandering melancholia for fans of Stars Of The Lid, Eluvium, Dead Texan, Tim Hecker, Godspeed and other purveyors of darkly dramatic, abstract moody minimalism…”

Aquarius Records

“Sublimely statue-esque guitar and piano treatments are on offer - classically tinged noire-ish scores, deliciously delicate, darkly romantic and teased with a sense of profound loss. All at once beguiling, bewitching and enchanting, these shy eyed and timid brief though hurting suites appear like impromptu though thought lost memories the type of which are fleetingly rekindled by a smell or a sensation identifying directly to one’s past. Appeal wise ’Aperture’ and ’Sometimes’ should in particular evoke in most the haunting dreamscapes of Satie - both refined and elegant these glacially swept gems are frail though nonetheless deeply touching while ’Correspondence’ is a gloriously tranquil moment that shimmers lonesome like a lost and detached dronescape scored by Yellow 6. That said our recommendation goes to the exquisite ’Lost Illusions’ - think of it as a Godspeed type calm before the storm basking beauty. Sumptuous stuff.”

Losing Today