VA - Hidden Landscapes (2011)

Limited edition of 200 copies Heart-warming compilation of modern ambient music from boutique imprint Audio Gourmet compiled in conjunction with Hibernate Records (Ian Hawgood/Danny Saul etc) and the Felt Collective. Featuring 14 tracks from Pillow Diver, Maps & Diagrams, Machinefabriek, Fabio Orsi and more, all the parts for 'Hidden Landscapes' were made with the brief to "…compose something particularly wintry to match the mood of the colder season." So, with crackling hearths and frosted windows in mind, the temper of this album is suitably evocative. Warming up to Offthesky and Pillowgarden's glowing, glitching folktronics in 'Abandon Leaf' the set pads through hovering harmonic drones in Ibreathefur's 'My Resonant Heart', slow-drawn cello strings and crackling ambient space on The Green Kingdom's 'Velvet Landscape', Bohren And Der Club Of Gore-like midnight jazztronics from Nicola Ratti and onto darker, more isolated pieces such as Machinefabriek's 3D simulacra 'Toendra' and Pillowdiver's glacial tones in 'Drugged on the Permafrost'.

TRACKLIST
1. Offthesky and Pillowgarden: Abandon Leaf
2. Maps and Diagrams: Everybody’s got Something to Hide
3. Ibreathefur: My Resonant Heart
4. Hessien: Hypothesis
5. The Green Kingdom: Velvet Landscape
6. Spheruleus: Frost
7. M.Ostermeier: Central
8. Nicola Ratti: Nordich
9. Machinefabriek: Toendra
10. Martin Herterich: Black Branches
11. Pillowdiver: Drugged on the Permafrost
12. Damian Valles: Antumbra
13. Fabio Orsi: Tropfen
14. Philip Sulidae: Broken Toes