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N Kramer & Magnus Bang Olsen
Pastoral Blend
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The album hinges on a live-looping process that begins with Olsenβs expressive steel guitar improvisationsβmelodic, windswept, distinctly Americanaβthen fed into Kramerβs digital sculpting, reversing, and layering into ambient sketches. Itβs 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 Sakamotoβs *Vrioon*, though *Pastoral Blend* keeps a gentler, more pastoral tone throughout. Where Noto's work might slice into silence with glistening precision, Kramerβs processing feels foggier and more diffuseβbeautiful, but occasionally veering toward the overly delicate.
A quietly rendered meditation that fans of *Habitat*, Fennesz, and ambient Americana hybrids may appreciateβthough 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


