Merchants Of Air
  • Home
  • Reviews
    • Albums
    • Concerts
  • Premieres
  • Interviews
  • Giveaways
  • Playlists
  • Shop
    • Merchants Of Air releases
  • About us
    • About Us
    • Writers Wanted
    • Logos and banner
    • Advertise
    • Mailinglist

Various Artists - Eilean 58

18/1/2018

Comments

 
ambient / drone
bandcamp
facebook
Picture
In the Merchants Of Air e-mail box there are always a few messages that call attention by their e-mail's subject (be creative always, the e-mail's subject is your first chance to caugh the attention of a reviewer). When I started to read their message, its kindness began to conquer me in a way that I decided to download their digital promo and listen to the compilation... And what luck I had!!! When it comes to ambient music I am "1" or "0", or I love it or I hate it - respectively - and definitely this album was "1", because I loved it!!!

There is so much to talk about it... because I discovered its beauty and creativity gradually... Well, in the first step I heard its music, and for a various artists compilation, it has an extremely cohesion because of the organization of its beatiful tracks - in the absence of a better adjective – and the album never gets boring!!! Oh, this work also has a care that few labels have when they release this kind of compilation: all the tracks were mastered FOR the entire album (an extremely well done work by Mathias Van Eecloo). This gives loudness homogeneity and normalizes the whole sound spectrum of all the songs, only this musical production "detail" already would make me give a grade 10 to this album! But there were other surprises waiting for me... Right after I discovered something that made me even more excited: The compilation was limited in 175 copies packed in a metal box with an awesome poster and some stickers as a collector's item (this could be seen in the images attached at the end of this review). As I said earlier, creativity is everything!!! The final prove is the fact that this album was released on December 12 and in a few days it was already sold out!!!

Interestingly, yesterday (January 15) I talked to a filmmaker friend and I said the following sentence to her: "It's impossible to destroy the system, but sometimes, with a lot of creativity, we can disturb it a little." In a time that the major record labels have absorbed the digital innovation and have re-invoiced billions of dollars, I confess that I always stay EXTREMELY happy - and hopeful - when I see any small DIY label finding creative solutions to show that it's still possible that an artist could survive worthily making art made with the heart, and not only to sell as much as possible. I really recommend this album, even in its digital version, and I also emphatically suggest the readers to accompany this label's releases!!!


Glauber

Comments
    Picture
    Support Merchants Of Air, check our our shirts

    Categories

    All
    Acoustic
    Alternative
    Ambient
    Americana
    Avant Garde
    Blackgaze
    Black Metal
    Blues
    Breakcore
    Classical
    Crust
    Dark Ambient
    Dark Jazz
    Darkwave
    Death Metal
    Doom
    Downtempo
    Dreampop
    Drone
    Drum & Bass
    Dungeon Synth
    EBM
    Edm
    Electronic
    Experimental
    Folk
    Folk Metal
    Funk
    Glitch
    Gothic
    Grindcore
    Grunge
    Hardcore
    Hard Rcok
    Hard Rock
    Heavy Metal
    Hip Hop
    House
    Idm
    Indie
    Industrial
    Jazz
    Krautrock
    Lo Fi
    Lo-fi
    Martial Industrial
    Math Rock
    Metal
    Metalcore
    Musique Concrète
    Neofolk
    New Wave
    Noise
    Noise Rock
    Nu Metal
    Pop
    Post Hardcore
    Post Metal
    Post Punk
    Post Rock
    Power Electronics
    Power Metal
    Progressive
    Psychedelic
    Psytrance
    Punk
    Rock
    Shoegaze
    Sludge
    Soul
    Soundtrack
    Southern Rock
    Space Rock
    Stoner Rock
    Symphonic Metal
    Synthpop
    Techno
    Thrash Metal
    Trance
    Trip Hop
    Vaporwave

Find us on

facebook
google+
twitter
tumblr
​
minds

About Us

Contact
FAQ
Logos and banners
© COPYRIGHT 2015. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.