Scott Smallwood - “Three Soundscapes” (Sijis)

Electro-Acoustic Chamber Music | US-American composer Scott Smallwood released his music at various experimental Net- and CDR-labels. For his collection “Three Soundscapes”, Smallwood and the Now Ensemble gathered to perform three of his most accessible compositions up to date. Neo-classical Ambient at the edge of Noise and Musique Concrète that might mark a good starting point for those who dare to dig deeper.

 

 Smallwood & Now Ensemble - "Still in Here" [10:42m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

The album starts with “Colton Swarm”. 11:30 minutes mainly build of harmonica- and cello-drones. Enhanced with subtle field-recordings, the whole piece billows up and down, gives rise to noisy wave peaks, uncovers calm clearings and stomachs the careless listener in a whole. Huge. “Stay” is the very step too close to Industrial-music and, although the end is fine, not my cup of machine oil.

So skip and enjoy “Still in Here”. For another 10:40 minutes, Smallwood and the Now Ensemble carefully create advanced, acoustic ambient music. Sijis Netlabel put Smallwood’s musical annotations in the ZIP-file and it’s pretty exciting to follow them. All musicians act with great concentration and intuition for each other. Craftsmanship, despite all the UGC-hooray, is a stunning thing to observe.

MP3 Ambient Music Download

Release-Site: Scott Smallwood - “Three Soundscapes”
Direct Download: Scott Smallwood - “Three Soundscapes” ZIP
Netlabel: www.sijis.com
Artist Website: Scott Smallwood

About the Author

This article was written on Thursday, February 14, 2008 by Bettina Rhymes. Bettina Rhymes is the journalist alter ego of Sven Swift. Swift runs the established CDr- and Netlabel 12rec.net and acts as a Netaudio DJ every now and then. Next to his job at Phlow Mag, he writes reviews about free music at RUBored.org. Read more articles written by Bettina Rhymes.