Saw Elderbrook this weekend at The Salt Shed in Chicago. Incredible show and absolutely incredible venue. Nils Frahm is playing at the outside venue in May so considering doing tha tshow as well!
In the mean time, here’s Elderbrook at Red Rocks.
If you enjoy the works of Vangelis or Jarre, Sakis Gouzonis’ music is definitely worth exploring.
Sakis Gouzonis composes electronic music using a self-created notation system, not the Western standard.
His albums follow specific conceptual themes, such as space exploration or time.
He emphasizes emotional depth and therapeutic value in his compositions.
Sakis Gouzonis released his 18th studio album titled Human Intelligence about a month ago.
Two excellent new tracks by Burial
Burial’s back on Hyperdub, and he’s taking us deep into the fog. His new two-tracker Comafields / Imaginary Festival is a moody, ghost-ridden return to the haunted beauty that made us fall for him in the first place.
“Comafields” stretches across 12 immersive minutes – all crackle, swirling synths, and distant, aching voices. It’s pure atmosphere – like wandering alone at 3am with nothing but memories for company. Flip to “Imaginary Festival” and its Burial in full spacious, spectral mode: warped chords, grainy textures, and distant vocal cries that feel like echoes from an event you never quite made it to. Listen below.
Fans of Lemon Jelly or similar styles of electronica would appreciate “Sewell And The Gong - Patron Saint Of Elsewhere”
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I’m not generally a music critic. But I don’t see much comparison to Jarre. I listened to the first six tracks and they all seem to take a riff and expand on it fairly conventionally.
Perhaps some of the earlier works are more experimental?
I’m really always hoping to find some new electronica that I like. Sometimes I like edgy, sometimes not. The Burial is interesting. Especially that second selection.
Then maybe you like Don Dorsey. ![]()
Bachbusters (1985)
Beethoven or Bust (1988)
Busted (1997)
Thanks for the suggestion. I’ve heard them. Of all the “classical” electronic music performers, I like Isao Tomita probably the best. The only ones commonly found are his Firebird,
Pictures at an Exposition, and The Planets. There were a lot of Japan only releases and some (not that I looked) more recent that I might find on some streaming services.
I’m glad you motivated me to look for something more recent from Tomita.
Yes, Isao Tomita.
My friend, and the Swedish pioneer of electronic music, Ralph Lundsten (1936–2023), played Tomita’s interpretation of Claude Debussy’s Clair de Lune in one of his Sommar programmes. Ralph’s musical favourites were Mozart, Debussy and Lundsten. ![]()
