In this program, we're stepping into the imaginative worlds of two vastly different ends of the ambient continuum. My first featured artist is composer, musician, and puppeteer Tristan Allen who has a dream-like experience in store for us with their mixed disciplinary release "Osni the Flare"; and later in the program Alison DeVille of XII Sound gives us a guided audio tour of London's Underground with her highly skilled and cleverly edited field recording-based album "Tube V".
In this program I will be showcasing two deeply contemplative releases that reward the concentrated and devoted listener with ever-unfolding layers of mystique and texture-rich beauty. First up, Rafael Anton Irisarri has a new album born out of improvisational sessions in a former Dutch psychiatric prison, reflecting on our supposedly connected digital age; and later in the program Nairobi-born electronic artist and sound designer KMRU is back with his second release on the electronic music label Editions Mego sporting an album that explores a more noisier palette of sound in homage to the distorted guitar playing of his more formative years.