Quote from: Bloated Slutbag on May 10, 2018, 05:53:33 PMBaldruin
Not sure this is anything like folk per se, seems a number of reviewers call it "darkambient", I suppose owing to the ubiquitous drone elements, but has worked with Brannten Schnure and is well ensconced in the field "bedroom electronics". Low-key low-fi vibe propelled more by the acoustic surface overlay of off-kilter music-box tendency. Far from what one might call top shelf ambient thus perhaps the folk label, but for me at least strangely addictive Cthulu Records bedroom vibes, I keep coming back trying to decide what it is, exactly, I'm supposed to be listening to.
https://baldruin.bandcamp.com/
Was slightly soused when I unloaded the above so thought I'd come back to try to parse where in hell I (imagine I) was coming from. Baldruin. Folk, okay not folk, probably more off-kilter goth pop with marked experimental leanings, plus third party folk associations. But legitimate effort in proper song-writing. Melodic music box elements, rhythms, even occasional vocals. Almost ethereal but not really "pretty" nor ominous. None of that heavy "darkambient" billowing drone texture, more pastoral, achieving drone flavors via competing collage of echoing acoustic elements. Like Brannten Schnure, each song is relatively brief, seldom straying over three minutes, so plenty of opportunity to explore a range tightly encapsulated idears. This might be where The Gray Field Recordings were going before the project disappeared hopefully not for good-
https://youtu.be/YgoOfe7svwUBaldruin and Brannten Schnure came together (once, twice?) in this project-
Diamantener Oberhof
...which sounds pretty much what you'd get if you mixed the two together if, perhaps as these were live stage encounters, more free form in their droning tendencies.
https://youtu.be/EkhpJl6dkBQhttps://manufactureerrata.bandcamp.com/album/concert-au-greffier
