Looking for something seasonal yet electronically mediated to fill your holiday playlist? Sort of like a yule log, but musical? Try the new compilation, A Candle’s Golden Glow, from the Dark Winter netlabel (darkwinter.com). Its 15 tracks are ambient, droning,
and entirely season-appropriate. Much of it would fit in well with Phil Kline’s Unsilent Night, the annual beatbox street-art ritual of overlapping atmospherics (unsilentnight.com, disquiet.com).
You can hear a familiar melody buried amid birdsong on
Gurdonark‘s “Hark the Herald Angels Sing” (
MP3), piped lightly above rhythmic static on
Mikrodepresja‘s “Silent Night (nousarchive mix)” (
MP3) and twisted gently in
Ka-baalim‘s “Noel Melting” (
MP3).
Zenith‘s “Primordia Have Spoken” is a particularly beautiful and angelic haze (
MP3). Get the the full set , compiled by
Nathan Larson, at
darkwinter.com. (I shot the above holiday image earlier this week in the Shimo-Kitazawa neighborhood of Tokyo.)
