Feldmaus - "Lively Inner Shore" (MP3)
Feldmaus - "The Sky Turned (feat. Imachi Akira)" (MP3)
Feldmaus - "Put On A Magical Hood" (MP3)

Passage Netlabel is an ambient sub-division of Fragment Music netlabel established in 2009. While the russians deliver HiFi-Minimal Techno and similiar tracks on Fragment Music the main course of Passage is to explore the deepest and most charming forms of abstract musical expression. Passage is handling flexible style borders with several main settings - flowing ambience, organic structure and depth.

Feldmaus is a collaboration between Evgeny Shchukin and Alexander Tochilkin both known as Modul. The title of their album describes best what the music is about: spaces where you find musical ambience in each corner.

Starting off slowly and subtle with "Sunbeams In High Grass" and "Lively Inner Shore" you will listen to ambient music with a subtle 4-to-the-floor kickdrum like a pulsating heart. In one of those tracks Japanese guitarist Imachi Akira joined with Feldmaus to build a fantastic trip through space and time in track called "The Sky Turned (feat. Imachi Akira)".

A beautiful, relaxed and cinematic adventure.

MP3 Ambient Music Download

Download: Feldmaus - "Spaces" (ZIP-Archive)
Artist-Website: Feldmaus
Release: Feldmaus - "Spaces"
Netlabel: www.passagemusic.net

Imachi Akira - "Noise Dreams" (MP3)
Imachi Akira - "Untitled" (MP3)

"Lycoris Radiata" is wonderfully diversified! The album kicks in with the ambient "Noise Dreams". The tracks sounds rather dreamful than noisy and charmed away my misgivings that Imachi Akira is just another Netaudio Noise-musician. "Birdpia" afterwards entangles Electronica, gentle guitar-chords and field recordings. Alone, the mix is a bit awkward with the clicks n' cuts quite prominent (which is true for some of the tracks and the only major drawback.

At "Aware Si Mono", Akira pulls out the echo chamber, mixing warm noises with harmonica and his guitar pickings.  The title track "Lycoris Radiata" surprises with massive guitar feedback and distortion noises, while "Silent Way" just afterwards shows the way back to Dub and Jazzy soundscapes. Double bass and piano work superb.  "..." is the last track on the album and with it's introspect Folk-motives, all these little noises and lo-fi atmosphere it reminds me of Rain Netlabel or, more explicit, Daisuke Miyatani or Beddoes (from whom you will hear somewhat later).

Central to Imachi Akira's album is the twelve-minutes "Untitled". On top the murmur of a streamlet, a very simple synth bubble is heard. Minute by minute, additional layers of synth loops are introduced. With increasing complexity, motives form in-between what is really played. That recalls Steve Reich's early works or Philip Glass indeed, but Akira keeps it down to earth by hitting-in a powerful piano track at halftime. The epic ending is noise, and then, the silent creek again. Wow.

MP3 Electronic Music Download

Download: "Lycoris Radiata EP" ZIP
Artist-Website: imachi.org
Release: Imachi Akira - "Lycoris Radiata EP"
Netlabel: electronicalabel.ru