{"id":9915,"date":"2017-09-12T11:57:48","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T10:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=9915"},"modified":"2017-09-12T11:57:48","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T10:57:48","slug":"monty-adkinss-shadows-and-reflections-reviewed-by-chain-dlk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=9915","title":{"rendered":"Monty Adkins\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Shadows and Reflections\u00e2\u20ac\u009d reviewed by Chain DLK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cronicaelectronica.org\/releases\/133\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/cronica133-2017_520.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"520\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9833\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/cronica133-2017_520.jpg 520w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/cronica133-2017_520-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/cronica133-2017_520-260x260.jpg 260w, http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/cronica133-2017_520-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Shadows And Reflections\u00e2\u20ac\u009d aims for \u00e2\u20ac\u02dca sense of meditation, contemplation and relaxation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 as it develops sonic ideas originally created for an audiovisual exhibit at Bradford Cathedral in 2016 that drew inspiration from the restored altarpiece and stained glass windows of the cathedral. Designed for the cassette format, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s two twenty-minute pieces of warm, comforting, eventless drone soundscape with a decidedly \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcempty church\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 feel.<\/p>\n<p>This is simple, floating ambience that can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help but induce a sense of steady calm. The evolution of the tones is imperceptibly glacial. The second piece \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Sounds Of The Sun\u00e2\u20ac\u009d has an ever so slightly more tubular, metallic resonance to it, but I may only think that because my brain started to adapt to the noise level as its new normal.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s available digitally too, as the often soft and subtle soundscape can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really benefit from tape hiss- it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a very purist bit of soundscaping that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pleasantly soporific and attention-avoiding. <em>Stuart Bruce<\/em><\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaindlk.com\/reviews\/?id=10061\">Chain DLK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Shadows And Reflections\u00e2\u20ac\u009d aims for \u00e2\u20ac\u02dca sense of meditation, contemplation and relaxation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 as it develops sonic ideas originally created for an audiovisual exhibit at Bradford Cathedral in 2016 that drew inspiration from the restored altarpiece and stained glass windows of the cathedral. Designed for the cassette format, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s two twenty-minute pieces of warm, comforting, eventless &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=9915\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Monty Adkins\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Shadows and Reflections\u00e2\u20ac\u009d reviewed by Chain DLK&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[458,279],"class_list":["post-9915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-458","tag-monty-adkins","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9916,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9915\/revisions\/9916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}