Stellardrone - Between the Rings

As usual, I've discovered this music completely by chance. It has everything I've ever asked from a Psybient release: cosmic spatial atmospheres of a journey to the stars, beautiful melodies, deep and dynamic instruments... you name it.

Just listen to this album at maximum volume, go kiss the sky and tell me about it later.

See you in limbo.

Stellardrone - Light Years

Welcome to the quantic core root of hyperspatial cosmos. The great cycle of life continues on and on, and Psybient makes a comeback, as rapturing as ever.

I let Youtube choose the next album, just once, and I discovered Stellardrone's music, which became an instant favourite. Rich atmospheres, voluptuous soundscapes, a sound that plays hide and seek, even better with headphones... so many musical elements that come together to form a tranquil mass, like a giant water bubble floating through space...

Ok, enough said, just listen to it, then buy it all, then travel to the other side of the world, come back, go back, then we'll talk some more.

Bioscape - Shaping Seasons

It has been a LONG while since I posted anything starting with "psy-" but the summer lights of this beautiful month of July told me to do it again, and I had to comply when I discovered that Bioscape had produced a couple of new albums right when I wasn't looking !

You can really feel the evolution of the quality of his work. Driving basslines, beautiful melodies, an atmosphere that will take you from the core of the Earth to mystical jungles, and ultimately to outer-space, of course, because which Psydub album doesn't send people in orbit ?

But all the while it does so, the musical feeling shifts from season to season, and ends beautifully with winter.

Needless to say, I was chilled to the bone.

Enjoy this master-crafted piece of psychedelic music.

Nibana - Shūmatsu No Tani

Shūmatsu No Tani is the third album from Nibana, and comes in a double album divided into two distinct parts. The first one is more of a downtempo mystical and epic odyssey that culminates in the impressive 'Orchestra Electronica'.

The second part is driven by Bass Music, psystep and glitch-hop, the whole with influences as various as Tipper, Whitebear, Koan Sound, Suduaya and Solar Fields, among others.

Enjoy !

By the way, you can buy the album free priced at Bandcamp, but if you want to download it for free, consider going to Ektoplazm.

State Azure - Phantoms

A seed of light turning the web into a firefly-filled dream, during eleven beautiful tracks, showing that psybient does not always mingle with psydub, sometimes it stays on its own, brilliantly.

State Azure is true to his unique style, take us on a nostalgic trip, juggling with lofty and dreamy atmospheres, building palaces in the clouds, where we end up, tiptoeing amid columns of vapour, to sit quietly and enjoy a bit of music.

Still self-published, still free-priced, and still British. An excellent album that is not reserved to eagle-headed connoisseurs.

See you again soon, best regards.

Narcose - Panda Eyes

Taking its roots at the threshold between Swamp and Psybient and sprinkled with dubby dust, Panda Eyes is what you need to give back their psychedelic side to places wronged when called sinister. Between a marsh buzzing with fireflies and a mystical crystal fountain.

I am currently reading the classic Lord of the Rings and played this music while the book describes the climbing of a high, dark and never-ending stair, flanked by chasms at the bottom of which you can see a corrupted and dead city, encircled by weird flowers and prickly mountain bushes.

I hope nobody is going to mistake the fact that I deemed it very à-propos for such a scene...

And I say this to you: whenever you get the chance to find a free(-priced) album at Mystic Sound Records, you can buy with your eyes closed, there's a 99.99% chance it's going to be excellent.

Also, you'll appreciate the music better with your eyes closed, of course.

Well, see you next time !