Artist:
Various
Various
Title:
Diversity In
The Isles
Diversity In
The Isles
Label:
Unknown
Unknown
Released:
25th of March
25th of March
Compiled
(not sure Curated is the correct terminology) by my counterpart on
the Chill Out Sessions Liquid Lounge this is the first in a series of
releases, with the sole aim of featuring down-tempo artists (both
established and new) from the United Kingdom who are currently active
on the festival circuit. As the title suggests the intent is to cover
a vast array of sub-genres ranging from psy-dub to glitch, trip-hop
and jazztronica, new age to psy-chill and all points in between.
Available for pre-order as of now with immediate down-load of Pete Ardron's track.
The
gamble with a diverse compilation is will it be to everyone's taste
and to be honest not everything featured on this album is to mine.
However, that said there's plenty that is and it features a fair few
artists familiar to me, which I mostly listen to already and some new ones that also appeal. OOOD for example
are well known on the festival circuit and on occasion produce
something a little more chilled than their staple psy-trance in this
case a pleasant enough piece of well produced electronica. Pete Ardon
(Orchid-Star) also features along with Helen Francis delivering a
mellow piece of tropical ambience accompanied by plenty of birdsong
and flutes. Whilst the ever-popular Bristol based psy-dub producer
Globular delivers his usual antics to good effect and Manchester's
Perpetual Loop leans more to his Digital Duvet moniker with some laid
back Ibiza style chill out.
Those
few aside I'm also well aware of Northampton's Mosienko Project (also
part of Trans-Irie Nation and Celt Islam's band) who fuses the pungi, oud
and darbuka's of Arabia with electronica. As well as Welsh dub-punk
Rev Dread who draws on the traditional roots and dub-reggae adding a
modern twist. Narcose I'm less familiar with but did bag his 'They
always come at night' an excellent track from the compilation
'Ethnomystica Vol 2' the piece featured here is an eerie slice of
psy-chill with a lovely piano melody but doesn't quite reach the same
heights.
Of
the artists I'm unfamiliar with the ones that really stood out for me
is Geoglyph whose contribution is a summery slice of harmonica
fused ethnic dub. Whilst False Identity provides a lovely laid back
guitar piece that would slot comfortably into a Balearic set. As
would Ultramorphic's blend of Vangelis like synths, Pink Floyd'esque
guitars, counter-balanced with horn and sax laden reggae.
Reviewed
by Woodzee
Links
Available for pre-order as of now with immediate down-load of Pete Ardron's track.
