Rudy Adrian - Beyond The Sleepy Hills '2024

Tracks list

       New Zealand based electronic visionary Rudy Adrian returns with a new
collection of atmospheric soundscapes, Beyond the Sleepy Hills. Though
envisioned as a soundtrack to the sleeping states, details and subtleties under
each warm synth bed await discovery by the conscious listening mind. Gentle
drones, atonal bells and soft piano wend and wind around textures with grace:
Adrian's meticulous layers coalescing into calm. And as the album passes in a
gorgeous drift, these 9 movements merge into a stunning whole.

Like much of his previous releases, Adrian once again draws inspiration from the
natural world, proving himself a master of sonic mise-en-scène. On Track 3,
textures shimmer like sun-dappled branches as subtle chimes evoke birdcalls in
the distance. Track 4 paints a nighttime scene; bright bells as the
cloud-covered moon, the low drone of the wind, a burbling stream winding below.
Track 8 is subtly symphonic as warm chords of swelling strings ebb and flow like
the tides.

Beyond the Sleepy Hills is calm without being cloying; it soothes the listener
not with visions of some imagined paradise, but of familiar habitat. Memories
unearthed in these compositions: sitting by a tree in evening, the bark warm and
rough against your back; a walk through wind-tossed branches, insects flitting
across the path; the ocean, not quite still, unending. All this, as we resolve
to let go of worldly events and succumb once again to sleep.

Tracklist:
1-1. Rudy Adrian - The Sleepy Hills 1 (05:16)
1-2. Rudy Adrian - The Sleepy Hills 2 (08:28)
1-3. Rudy Adrian - The Sleepy Hills 3 (03:56)
1-4. Rudy Adrian - The Sleepy Hills 4 (09:33)
1-5. Rudy Adrian - The Sleepy Hills 5 (03:39)
1-6. Rudy Adrian - The Sleepy Hills 6 (06:51)
1-7. Rudy Adrian - The Sleepy Hills 7 (03:42)
1-8. Rudy Adrian - The Sleepy Hills 8 (08:55)
1-9. Rudy Adrian - The Sleepy Hills 9 (09:52) 

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