Reviews of Wood, Winter, Hollow [12k1075]

“Wood, Winter, Hollow” opens up and lets the world and the weather in more powerfully than anything else I’ve heard from either artist.

A remarkably moving album.

Highly melancholic stuff indeed

Cache-cache du soleil.

Wood Winter Hollow implies that beauty can be found in the aftermath.

The album constantly stimulates the senses with its abundant flow of natural and man-made detail.

rappresenta non un semplice affresco naturalistico, ma una vera e propria fedele rappresentazione del suono di un determinato microcosmo…

While most of the pieces may be approached as nonchalantly walks but no less devoid of poetry, crackling and other field recordings refer equally to the winter pure white to a dark summer night.

…designed to transport you to another place, another world.

Wood, Winter, Hollow is a record that speaks volumes about what fuels the identity of [12k].

Wood, Winter, Hollow’ takes place between the channels of a digital folk that reproduce, almost like a photograph, that wild scenario. His intervention in the landscape are just tiny details that are mixed with buds that grow beside the trees, adorned by snow that slowly melts by a sun of faded colors.

The music of Taylor Deupree is now light years away from synthetic architectures of his early work.

Deupree and Sakamoto clearly took time to weave their sound sources into a synthesized whole.

It’s evocative ambient music at its most sparsely beautiful.

Webb’s entrancing arpeggios on a nylon guitar succeded in emphasizing the enchanted illusory stillness of [the] place.

…comme un trait radieux qui viendrait percer la grisaille et éclairer l’étendue neigeuse.

The record perfectly captures the feeling of being alone in the woods

Una delle collaborazioni più riuscite degli ultimi anni di musica ambient.

La cosa da sottolineare è il rispetto con cui i due hanno dimostrato di trattare i field recordings.

De winter in het bos klinkt niet kil en ijzig, maar op een kalme manier haast geborgen en warm.

Ein Album, das eine zutiefst intime Stimmung aufgreift und sie zu einem vierzig Minuten langen emotionalen Feld verdichtet.

Most of the tracks sound like a cold February day in the forest.

It’s a masterful example on how source and composition can intertwine seamlessly.

…un torrent caché sous le lichen et on s’imagine fissa en Ulysse sur un beau voyage.

After all, this is not just a documentation, but an emotional journey. And these are the places only music can take you to.