Mix: “Modern Antique”

So I’ve been working on my follow up to “I Swear By All The Flowers“, and part of that process has been spent drawing inspiration from other people making amazing antique sounding ambient music. So I decided to put together a short mix of some of the stuff that has been rotating around my playlist.

Modern Antique @8Tracks.com

I will probably be spinning a lot of this at DAMNED IV.

Playlist:

Fjordne, “Gathering”
The Caretaker, “An empty bliss beyond this World”
Pieerre-Yves Macé, “Dialektiches Bild”
Anna Rose Carter & Pleq, “Sesom”
Plinth, “Victorian Machine Music 04″
Life Toward Twilight, “Beside The Trees (1891)”
Library Tapes, “Accidental Theme pt. 1″
Christopher Bissonnette, “Tempest”

New review for “I Swear By All The Flowers”

A new review for I Swear By All The Flowers” is in the latest Steam Punk Magazine:

The simplest way to sell you on this CD is to tell you that it was created entirely of antique sources, sampling music boxes, and wax cylinders to great effect. The entire album is restrained, soft, and pretty. As atmosphere, it’s nearly perfect.

That said, there is not so much that is intensely beautiful about the album, nothing to really draw you in, nothing that will haunt you hours later (with the possible exception of “sunrise”, the final track, performed on a lovely out-of-tune piano). But while this is to say that the work is not a masterpiece, it is certainly well executed and well worth multiple listens.