Escape the monotony of purely beat-driven albums and take a journey through a soundscape of contrasting emotions and energies in Ambient Encounters.
This LP begins with three short ambient pieces. Every so often we encounter moments of electronica, glitch, dubstep and chill. As these beats pass we transition back into ambient again. These periods of “breathers” contrast between the beat-driven tracks, providing all the benefits that ambient does; cue to breathe, rest, reflect and generally letting go of tension.
This is a quality of any good ambient album, but Ambient Encounters isn’t a typical ambient album. Not only because it potentially has the occasional head-nodding, sub loving, glitch electronica material, but because some of the ambient pieces are more engaging than what might be considered to be admirably, completely mind-clearing, hour long, ambient music.
These short moments are more like snapshots of spaces, places, dreams and machine-like exchanges. Like the in-between days, the sleeps, and the way some days feel. Travelling through the modern world of wilderness and natural beauty, we inevitably encounter human activity. The adventure takes us on a walk into a ruin, a village, a town, an industrial estate, a city, the internet, and other people. Then we go back again.
1 hour 16 minutes.
This is the 5th Terrapastel album. This time utilising all the experience gained from the previous four. These brand new tracks were written, composed, produced and engineered within the past year. Start to finish, except ‘Cramped’, ‘Spun’, ‘ Like New’, ‘Draught’, and ‘Tour’ which began in 2021.
Working with tons of freshly made material, then picking the very best, while applying the techniques learned from the past two years, makes this LP stand out clearly from the catalogue. Musically and sonically this new direction should be noticeable in every way.
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