Simon McCorry & Andrew Heath - A Is for Autumn (2022)

These gentlemen already appeared together on this blog: Simon McCorry and Andrew Heath are 2/3 of Konstruct, and they are back with some more extremely atmospheric music on their fittingly called new album, A Is for Autumn.

And yes, this is the perfect music for this season. Moody and soft, slow and gloomy. The heavy basses contrast here with delicate and super sad feedback-like noises; the static soundscapes are limitless and the pure melancholia drips out of every note. It gets even better with the sea od synths that appears from time to time, mesmerizing the audience in an instant as it is in my favourite track here, V​ä​ldighet. I can't stress enough how well this album goes with the world out there at this time of the year. If you need to enhance the nostalgic experience autumn offers, you should make this album its soundtrack.

A Is for Autumn costs 8 EUR (7 GBP).

Konstruct - Soundworks (2022)

Simon McCorry - Border Land (2019)

Check: Rain

Country: UK

Genre: melancholic soundscape

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Konstruct - Soundworks (2022)

Konstruct is a trio made of talented ambient/neoclassical artists with Simon McCorry being the best known on this blog. Apart from the British cellist, it involves also Alexander Caminada a.k.a. Phonsonic and Andrew Heath. All of them joined forces to create a unique soundscape of ambient's mystery and neoclassicism's beauty. 

This is a recorded performance they gave at the Ground Works event and the music they served there is filled with audio references to nature, the Earth and the landscape we live within. There's a handful of very tangible, very organic sound samples that are woven into a blend of ambient and neoclassical music. The latter is dominated (though it feels wrong saying that abut such a delicate entity) by piano keys and McCorry's melancholic cello music used to create sad, slow drone. This all results in a rather gloomy take on instrumental ambient that manages to be attractive and pretty at the same time.

Soundworks costs 6 EUR (5 GBP)

Simon McCorry - Border Land (2019)

Check: Lines Across the Land 

Country: UK

Genre: neoclassical soundscape

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Simon McCorry - Border Land (2019) EN

Simon McCorry is a British cellist inspired by the works of Aphex Twin. Which explains a lot. On his June album Border Land, he included long minutes of string music and sadness.

The album's strength is its dark minimalism. Most of the time is occupied by the mawkish howling of the cello accompanied only by reverbs or subtle drones. But don't be mistaken, the artist manages to create some wonderful and engaging music chaos as well, especially in Awakening. Another helpful thing in his work is the use of field recordings from the very far North of the United Kingdom audible in Sacred Geometries and Not One Thing.

The atmosphere is only proven by this interesting story about the latter: "There is a recording taken from wind blowing through a metal gate to a lighthouse on Noup Head. The gate was singing. It had three holes either from missing screws or where it rusted in the elements. These emitted three different pitches which interacted in an unpredictably pleasant way".

Border Land costs 7.99 GBP.

Check: Not One Thing

Country: UK

Genre: dark cello ambient

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Simon McCorry - Border Land (2019) PL

Simon McCorry to brytyjski wiolonczelista zasłuchany w twórczość Aphex Twin. To wiele tłumaczy. Na wydanej w czerwcu płycie Border Land, zawarł on kilkadziesiąt minut wariacji na muzykę smyczkową i smutek.

Siłą albumu jest jego mroczny minimalizm. Gros jego długości wypełnia rzewne zawodzenie wiolonczeli wspomagane jedynie reverbami i delikatnym dronem. Niech to jednak nikogo nie zwiedzie, artyście udaje się nieraz doprowadzić do cudnego i pochłaniającego muzycznego chaosu, chociażby w Awakening. Z pomocą przychodzą też field recordings z dalekiej północy Zjednoczonego Królestwa słyszalne w Sacred Geometries i Not One Thing.

Klimat potwierdza tylko taka interesująca historia odnośnie tego ostatniego utworu: "Jest tam nagranie wiatru wiejącego przez metalową bramę latarni morskiej na Noup Head. Ta brama śpiewała. Znajowały się w niej trzy dziury po brakujących śrubkach albo przerdzewiałych elementach. Emitowały one dźwięki w trzech różnych tonacjach, które razem brzmiały niesłycanie przyjemnie".

Border Land kosztuje 38 złotych (7,99 GBP).

Sprawdź: Not One Thing

Kraj: UK

Szufladka: dark cello ambient

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