Sunday, 30 June 2019

Hibernation 'Ambient Re:Works 01' Review






Artist: Hibernation





Title: Ambient Re:Works 01





Released: 28th June











Following on from the recent ambient re-works of the Kaya Project, Seb Taylor applies this method to another of his projects Hibernation. When he mentioned on social media he was toying with the idea, I immediately thought having always liked the Jazzy elements utilised in some of the original tracks, that this would work perfectly.


As always Seb plays a number of different instruments from guitars, bass and piano to the zheng (a Chinese plucked string instrument) which he utilises in ‘Wabi Sabi’ over rippling water and laid back atmospheric synth voices and fx. Guest musicians are also featured such as Natasha Chamberlain (Kaya Project) with vocals and flute, Susi Evans adds clarinet to ‘Empty Cities’ (where you could easily draw comparison to Floex) and Vicki Flint plays mute trumpet to the strings and harmonic vocals of ‘Aquarius 138’.


For me the tracks on this album yet again bridges the world of traditional music with the electronic, whilst achieving an atmosphere with these re-mixes that you want to find in an ambient album. In other words perfectly suitable for a lazy Sunday afternoon.



Reviewed by Woodzee.





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