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Music From Memory (MFM077)

1x Vinyl LP

Release date: Jun 30, 2025, Netherlands

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The album hinges on a live-looping process that begins with Olsen’s expressive steel guitar improvisationsβ€”melodic, windswept, distinctly Americanaβ€”then fed into Kramer’s digital sculpting, reversing, and layering into ambient sketches. It’s a thoughtful method that gives the record a subtle, lived-in rhythm, avoiding over-sequenced sterility.


The blend aims for the hushed stillness of Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto’s *Vrioon*, though *Pastoral Blend* keeps a gentler, more pastoral tone throughout. Where Noto's work might slice into silence with glistening precision, Kramer’s processing feels foggier and more diffuseβ€”beautiful, but occasionally veering toward the overly delicate.


A quietly rendered meditation that fans of *Habitat*, Fennesz, and ambient Americana hybrids may appreciateβ€”though it sometimes skirts the edge of safety, never quite unraveling the tension its methods promise. One for soft mornings and careful headphones listening.

1

Descend

2

Limbic Fresco

3

Pastoral Blend

4

Weathered

5

Orb

6

Grasslands

7

Agrarian Dawn

8

Harvest

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