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Igloo MagazineThree sound-art, ambient, and microtonal projects with a shared interest in looped soundscapes join forces to offer a rich, lush, and multilayered imaginative soundtrack for the reflective mind. I’ve been mostly familiar with the first two projects reunited for this occasion.

Mi Cosa de Resistance is a transportive, emotionally powerful, and wistful journeying-ambient project that makes abundant use of nostalgically tinged looped textures. This collective comes from Argentina and has published a handful of releases in ultra-limited, often craft-based editions.

Fond of harmonic textures and operating with a well-balanced interplay between strange melodies and expansive atmospheres, OdNu is an original, multifaceted project also originating from Argentina (now based in New York) and well known to followers of Audiobulb.

Southern Lands is mostly a guitar-centric, cinematic post-classical sound odyssey that also gives space to a complete small chamber-music collection of instruments. Each piece drifts like a soothing breath, filled with nostalgia and inviting the listener into a state of weightlessness, pulsation, and then oneiric, meditative lightness. High levels of melodic delicateness interact with flexible electronic scintillations and guitar reverberations, sometimes seconded by wind-instrument tones.

All in all, this is an outstanding, dreamily introspective ambient release with a strong instrumental basis and a refined taste for sonic exploration. It is highly recommended for fans of the haunting evocativeness and meditative slow motion found in projects such as Hymn57 and Ava Rasti, as well as the organic-analog breathing sound textures of Benoît Pioulard, James Bernard, and the post-classical timbres of Clarisse Jensen, or the Arms and Sleepers palette with added glitch-esque sequences and touches of ambient country music (mostly from Island House Recordings). Southern Lands can easily engulf the listener in deep reflective beauty and a gently tactile, sentient movement. Without any doubt, it stands among the most melodiously infused ambient releases of the year.

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Magazine SixtyGreg Fenton reviews OdNu, Mi Cosa de Resistance & mRn – Southern Lands – Audiobulb Records

Combining instruments and a shared love of formative locations, the Southern Lands of the Argentinian landscapes by the Rio de la Plata, the three artists have conjured not only the magical nature of organic matter but also the turbulence of formation alongside the decay of moments within time.

This is about poise and the suspension of reality, as sounds engage in conversation with the listener, explaining thoughts through sonic means. Soaring, stereo-expanding guitar lines echo around the overlapping swirl of synthesisers, as if to emphasise a point, while occasional strings or voices enhance the atmospheric discourse, offering hope with some reservation on the colourful Alguien de hace tiempo. Regalo de Adios feels like a rush of cascading water; Atomic Pitch disturbs the balance in striking ways with the guitar’s floating prowess addressing a few of many talking points. The clarinet is never far from reach either, embellishing the deeper meaning of Mycorrhizal Network, leaving the breathless entirety of Unlost New Features to complete the exercise with self-defining intensity and a wealth of mood-enhancing landscapes to explore.

Release: November 29
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Audiobulb Records

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