Label: Moodgadget
Catalog#: mgt010
Format: File, MP3
Country: US
Released: 14 Aug 2007
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient
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Tracklisting:
1 Will - Black Sands Excerpt (2:11)
2 Benoit Pioulard - Sunol (1:13)
3 Tstewart - Wonders Of Blunders (3:34)
Featuring - Benoit Pioulard
4 Rob Theakston - Puck (6:47)
5 Entsounds - The Winding Sun (Arc Edit) (2:29)
6 Praveen - Tour Around This House (5:58)
7 Reflecting Skin, The - And She Disappeared Into The Snow (5:23)
8 Calmer - Miles Ahead (4:04)
9 D.R. Casey - Marino (3:37)
10 Tokyo Bloodworm - Still Passage (5:03)
11 Viul - Breath On Empty Avenues (1:20)
12 Will - 5ft 2 (6:30)
13 A Setting Sun - Sunny Side Up (2:02)
14 Marumari - Birch Bark Vessel (1:59)
15 Direwires - Sunkissed (5:09)
16 D.R. Casey - Leaves (1:10)
17 Praveen - Distant Snow (3:51)
18 Viul - Belleau Wood (5:31)
19 Library Tapes - Skiss Av Trad (3:54)
20 Kyle Bobby Dunn - An Extension Suite (7:45)
Discogs:
http://www.discogs.com/release/1041724
Textura Review:
http://www.textura.org/reviews/expanselowlevels.htm
"On this hefty eighty-minute, twenty-track Moodgadget compilation, familiar names (Tstewart, Marumari, The Reflecting Skin) and new recruits do their part to make this a wide-ranging and forward-thinking collection of fresh ambient music. Some pieces are mere fragments (Benoît Pioulard's acoustic guitar setting “Sunol,” Viul's swirling vignette “Breath On Empty Avenues”) while others are more fully-developed. In general, the longer pieces make a stronger impact, typically because they offer the contributors a better opportunity to dig deeper emotionally and instrumentally. Though all participants adhere to the album's ambient theme, there's ample diversity on display: certainly Library Tapes mix of piano elegance and vinyl surface noise (“Skiss Av Trad”) is light years removed from Calmer's “Miles Ahead” which sounds like Filles de Kilimanjaro transmuted into a placid, four-minute oasis.
One style that reoccurs on Expanse At Low Levels is heavily-textured, loop-based meditations........."[/url]
