Frank Crijns
Shade Of Impulse
Crijns's first album for the label, in which he coins the term 'N-bient': ambient understood as the meeting point of nature (here, water) and acoustic instrumental writing (passages by classical ensembles). Several classes of material collide and combine - mechanical sound-fields, natural ambient, electronic textures, ensemble passages - folded into surreal, layered textures. An electro-acoustic music whose abstract elements pull the listener inward while the surface holds quiet.