Style: Ambient | Experimental
offthesky – “Subtle Trees” (Rope Swing Cities)
Versatile and Virtuoso Ambient | US American Jason Corder aka offthesky is someone to rely on. I wrote a review for his 2007's Autoplate release short before the label vanished, but there are recent releases at IOD, Zymogen and Resting Bell Netlabel who would have been worth a feature as well. Alone in 2008, Jason had two CDs released.
offthesky - "Swallow Shallows" (MP3)
offthesky - "Symphony for Exiting Entropies" (MP3)
Jason Corder's Ambient music rises from the ashes of a thousand instruments like fume from a wasted fireplace. It escapes the crashed corpora of violins, guitars and chimes. It's fluid and ghostlike, drifts from here to there, but once it had entered your ears, you can't get it out of your head. His tickeling textures swarm with micro-tonalities and bring forth that wonderful richness offthesky can be recognised by in all his releases.
In a way, Corder appears like someone who rather captures sound, more like a scientist who knows where to point the microscope to to reveal the beauty of the unseen. For a music video, I'd put someone catching insects with a butterfly net on a late Summer hayfield. In slow motion and back light. Humble beauty! Listen to "Swallow Shallow" and join my praise. A veritable Ambient masterpiece, you name it.
MP3 Ambient Music Download
Release: offthesky - "Subtle Trees"
Download: "Subtle Trees" ZIP
Artist-Website: www.offthesky.com
Netlabel: www.ropeswingcities.com
About the Author
This article was written on 7.January 2009 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.
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3 comments
beautiful and classic. generates a somehow very intimate atmosphere. it's like seeing classical instruments living for themselves without the musicians ;)
7. Jan 2009 at 3:25 pm
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[...] Still, Autoplate introduced and established some big names to the scene. Think of Kevin Krebs, Jason Corder, Andrey Kiritchenko, Gultskra Artikler, Normal Music… Musicians of great talent and inspiration. [...]
23. Apr 2009 at 6:46 pm
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[...] as the label puts it in fine precision. Their minimal Drones remind me of Direwires & Freder, offthesky or entia non.Got some time for a ride through the night? Start now, start right here.MP3 Ambient [...]
30. Oct 2009 at 6:34 pm
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