First thought? It doesn’t sound like someone trying too hard, which is always a relief. It’s not that self-important throb you sometimes get with ambient. It’s… like catching the first snow after a summer that stretched on way too long. Remember those hazy August days? They feel like distant echoes now, don’t they?
This single paints with sonic snow, and the whole picture is soft around the edges. Like, if Kandinsky was going through his winter whites phase. Or… or what if Van Gogh decided to trade starry nights for flurries? See, now I’m drifting…
The message is quiet, and isn’t shouting about Christmas (phew). There’s a kind of peaceful solitude, like being the only one awake while the world is wrapped in that cool, soft silence. You know, before the frantic unwrapping frenzy begins. Does that mean it’s good? I’m not sure, maybe? It just is.
It’s electronic, yes. But think less glitch-rave, and more the slow, quiet hum of electricity on a cold night, kind of… comforting. Makes me want a hot chocolate and maybe a good old-fashioned paper airplane made from a Christmas carol printed on a piece of sheet music. Odd, I know.
“Snowflakes Flight”. A simple concept turned into a sonic daydream. I’ll be pondering the way snow falls, all patterns and no purpose, tonight. I think Edditter captured something important in the falling. It makes the silence just before a storm seem suddenly… necessary.
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