Thursday, 8 February 2024
36 - Reality Engine, album review
36 Ambient Words…
Reviewing ambient music like this would, it seems from those who normally do, require a flamboyant mix of technical jargon refined to ‘ambient’ synonyms and further refined (or exploded) to philosophical ruminations.
Take the tags on Reality Engine’s Bandcamp page for this release: ambient / ambient electronic / atmospheric / dark ambient / deep / drone / electronica / electronica ambient / ethereal / meditation / minimal / dub / soundscape / soundscapes / techno / Indianapolis
I presume this is produced by an algorithm? Whatever the source, it is itself fascinating. The ambience in the list of ambient is a necessary torchbearer for meaningfulness, though the adjectival dark would be better replaced as a qualifier if it was meditative. Atmospheric is quite apt, though I would shape this with emotive somehow. Dub? Surely digital is a more apt d-word. I like the sense of important difference implied by soundscape and soundscapes, though this is clearly tautological. Minimal? I think it is the opposite: expansive or loop-large… Yes, neologisms would do.
My favourite tag-word here? Ethereal.
To this I will add gorgeous, peaceful, restful, restorative.
Done.
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