Quiet Space — #163 — Cumulus Sketches

An excellent new release to start 2021. Wil Bolton returns with ‘Cumulus Sketches’ , an album of fragile, drifting ambient structures for daydreaming and cloud-watching. Pastoral analogue synthesizer melodies and effects pedal textures are intertwined with rural and urban environmental sounds recorded in South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong and Sri Lanka. As well, the excellent Hibernate label with a series of releases available online for a charitable cause.

Track: In The Air Of The Morning (Intro)
Artist: Wil Bolton
Release: Surface Reflections
Label: Sound in Silence

Track: Cumulus Sketches
Artist: Wil Bolton
Release: Cumulus Sketches
Label: Home Normal

Track: Downstream
Artist: Wil Bolton
Release: Downstream
Label: Hibernate

Track: Pupilla
Artist: Marco Lucchi & Henrik Meierkord
Release: As riddled as the tide
Label: Hibernate

Track: Voiceplex
Artist: Darren McClure
Release: Backlit By Neon
Label: Hibernate

Track: Tapes on the Roof
Artist: East Paddy Cicadas
Release: Ritual
Label: Hibernate

Track: The Only Way is Love II
Artist: Shaun Blezard
Release: The Only Way is Love
Label: Hibernate

Track: Too Soon
Artist: Wil Bolton
Release: Cumulus Sketches
Label: Home Normal

Track: A Fable For The Chime
Artist: Lawrence English and Stephen Vitiello
Release: Fable
Label: Room40

Track: Powder06
Artist: Yamaoka
Release: tʌntrə X
Label: Neotantra

Track: In Flight
Artist: Wil Bolton
Release: Cumulus Sketches
Label: Home Normal