Ma3azef (.COM)

(Translated from Arabic)

Gather three of the most prominent ambient music creators over the past few decades, and enter them into one of the most important ambient sound record companies, and you get, as you’d expect, one of the best ambient albums of the year. Monogoto, the fruit of collaborations between Ian Hagwood, Porya Hatami and David Newman, and their first work on 12K Recordings, is an audio scene that continues to evolve, made up of amputated mechanical parts, field recordings and buds that switch gently between different moods and feelings. The album shows professionalism in sound design, and in dealing with ambient music as a genre that rarely succeeded this year’s albums.