{"title":"BLANK GLOSS","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"blank-gloss-january","title":"Blank Gloss - January","description":"Cat No: NTYG007\u003cbr\u003eFormat: 12\" LP [Printed Sleeve]\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Electronic, Ambient, Drone\u003cbr\u003eRelease Date: October 2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlank Gloss are happy to present their debut album, January; a sumptuous blend of lush ambience, hazy minimalism, sunset balearic, and light-as-a-feather new age. Built around a core of piano, guitar, and synthesized tones, Blank Gloss have constructed an album which easily holds your attention, but never demands it. It's suited to deep listening as well as background soundtracking","brand":"Night Young","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":35867500806300,"sku":"NTYG007","price":14.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/BlankGloss-January.png?v=1599306208"},{"product_id":"blank-gloss-melt","title":"Blank Gloss - Melt","description":"\u003cp\u003eGenre: Ambient\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormat: LP+DL \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCatalogue No.: Kompakt437 \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eB\/C: 4250101426100 \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRelease Date: 18 June 2021\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBack in stock: 22 July 2021\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMelt is the debut full-length album by Blank Gloss, the Sacramento duo of Patrick Hills and Morgan Fox. A lush dream of an album, it’s a remarkable index of the gilded eternities that you can magic from a reduced tonal palette: glistening guitars, ruminative piano, warps and weaves of subtle drone and hum.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIt’s an album that feels sui generis, somehow, much as it clearly sits within a number of fields – pop ambient, touches of new age and drone music. Some provisional clues, though, for music that echoes Melt’s loveliness: the humble ambience of the artists on Cold Blue Music; the eventless horizon of Bark Psychosis’ “Pendulum Man”; the emotive pointillism of Labradford; some of the snippets of song that drift through Pieter Nooten \u0026amp; Michael Brook’s Sleeps With The Fishes.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLIMITED PRESSING ON CLEAR VINYL.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAttentive listeners will recall their lovely contribution to Kompakt’s Pop Ambient 2021, “Of A Vessel”, which reappears here; others might know their 2020 mini-album, January, released on the stylish Miami label Night Young. With Melt, Blank Gloss make a heavy contribution to Kompakt’s ongoing explorations of the hundreds of hues of Pop Ambience. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe two members of Blank Gloss met through their shared involvement in punk and experimental music. Fox’s band had recorded at Hills’ Earthtone studio a number of times; they hit it off and made the decision to explore making music together. Their initial explorations resulted in their mini-album, January; for Melt, they aimed for something more minimal and improvised. “We tried to go into it without many preconceived notions,” Fox recalls. “We tried not to overthink what was happening or spend too much time hyper-focused on any one thing. We found it more enjoyable to make and to listen to when we just let whatever was happening happen.” This process freed Fox and Hills to make music that’s guided by intuition, inhabiting the moment and reaching for the next surprising possibility.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe long reels of e-bow guitar that wind through opener “Those Who Plant” ease the listener into an album that says plenty by doing less: witness the dream scripts that play out through pieces like “Hollowed Out” and “Of A Vessel”, the gentle weightlessness of “Almost Home”, or the clusters of guitar, expressive yet restrained, that sculpt “Rags” into being..\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLike all of this music, Melt embraces a radical ambiguity, one that allows the listener to enter the frame and inhabit the corners of the duo’s music. There’s pleasure and joy here too, of course – you can hear it in the ease of the playing and the beauty of the melodies that Blank Gloss carefully dapple across the tonal field. Reflecting on the sessions for Melt, Fox sums it up perfectly: “Being able to sit together in the little room and document the process of experimentation and bouncing ideas back and forth was really fun and rewarding. 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Following the almost baroque, blood-red and jet-black, extremely physical sculptures of Pop Ambient 2021, which emerged from a dark, floral sea like bodies erect for dancing, the front of 2022 is adorned with a pastel-white form, intertwined, folded many times and crisscrossed with delicate shading, which seems to float on a pale pink background; soft, gentle waves woven from Venetian colors that leave the viewer puzzled: Is it a flower, a coral, a mollusk?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAgain, the current edition of the tradition-steeped compilation series curated by Wolfgang Voigt is about the persistent and ever-necessary definition of beauty, of reduction, of electronic music of heavy lightness and light heaviness, of ambient's eternal promise of a state of physical and acoustic weightlessness and Pop's of redemption. And about the question why a never arbitrary combination of soundscape, drones, samples and loops, put together in a certain way, can create this feeling of warmth, depth and space, - something three-dimensional, where the imagination feels at home as a fish in the water or a bird in the sky. A key aesthetic stimulus that sends all the senses into a slow glide and drift, after which your synapses feel like they've been bathed in essential oil. Next to Soul, Ambient is probably the most effective musical healing plant of mankind. \u003cbr\u003eBehind the aural test tubes, the who's who of Pop Ambient is once again at work, led for the first time by the highly trafficked Californian duo Blank Gloss, whose debut album \"Melt\" this year was certified by The Guardian as nothing less than \"heartaching beauty\". Yui Onodera's \"Chrome\" as well as \"Kari\", a cooperation of Markus Guentner and Joachim Spieth, could also be imagined in the score of Denis Villeneuve's new film version of DUNE - however, colleague Hans Zimmer managed that quite well without the three. After such wonderful and stylish contributions by Reich \u0026amp; Würden, Triola and Thomas Fehlmann, the ear then lingers a bit longer on the ghostly \"Weiht\" by Morgen Wurde feat. Maria Estrella, a track like a temple of sound, a deep electronic immersion in a Japanese onsen. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this sea of unnameable time you could sink forever, but with the tracks of Andrew Thomas, Thore Pfeiffer and Max Würden \u0026amp; Pepo Galán the journey slowly comes to an end. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTracklisting \u003cbr\u003e1 - 1 Blank Gloss Coiling 00:05:17\u003cbr\u003e1 - 2 Yui Onodera Cromo 6 00:05:18\u003cbr\u003e1 - 3 Markus Guentner \/ Joachim Spieth Kari 00:07:53\u003cbr\u003e1 - 4 Reich \u0026amp; Würden Grainscan 00:06:25\u003cbr\u003e1 - 5 Triola Mutterkorn 00:05:55\u003cbr\u003e1 - 6 Thomas Fehlmann Rosen Fliegen 00:05:41\u003cbr\u003e1 - 7 Morgen Wurde feat. 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And about the question why a never arbitrary combination of soundscape, drones, samples and loops, put together in a certain way, can create this feeling of warmth, depth and space, - something three-dimensional, where the imagination feels at home as a fish in the water or a bird in the sky. A key aesthetic stimulus that sends all the senses into a slow glide and drift, after which your synapses feel like they've been bathed in essential oil. Next to Soul, Ambient is probably the most effective musical healing plant of mankind.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBehind the aural test tubes, the who's who of Pop Ambient is once again at work, led for the first time by the highly trafficked Californian duo Blank Gloss, whose debut album \"Melt\" this year was certified by The Guardian as nothing less than \"heartaching beauty\". Yui Onodera's \"Chrome\" as well as \"Kari\", a cooperation of Markus Guentner and Joachim Spieth, could also be imagined in the score of Denis Villeneuve's new film version of DUNE - however, colleague Hans Zimmer managed that quite well without the three. After such wonderful and stylish contributions by Reich \u0026amp; Würden, Triola and Thomas Fehlmann, the ear then lingers a bit longer on the ghostly \"Weiht\" by Morgen Wurde feat. 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Tetsuroh Konishi and Max Würden up to Triola's gloomy and melancholic \"Kupferblüte\", the feeling of a slowness and calmness not experienced before, of an exceedingly lively standstill, creeps over us. A mental state that resembles dreams, in which we follow strange events as if paralyzed, yet awake and sensory. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Cologne-based Sono Kollektiv, an association of experimental artists Annie Bloch, Stefanie Grawe, Joel Jaffe, Alex Linster, Luis Weiß, Moritz Riesenbeck, Lukas Schäfer, Emily Wittbrodt and Max Würden, is represented for the first time with two contributions on Pop Ambient. The two works, the fragile \"Bolzano Sessions IV\" and the rather light-flooded \"Bolzano Sessions V\" (only available on CD and in the digital version) nestle perfectly into the musical whole of this year's compilation, not only in terms of their majestic leisureliness. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Jens-Uwe Beyer's \"Nero\", melancholic guitar chords reduced to the bare minimum are carried away by the wind like leaves, the reverberation holding the last note so long that it almost comes to a stop in the ear. If you like it synesthetic, look at the once again ravishing cover artwork by Veronika Unland right at this moment. Colors and shapes in which there is both everything and nothing to discover. Both feel equally right. \u003cbr\u003eThe final third of Pop Ambient 2023 begins with Reich \u0026amp; Würden's herbaceous \"Receiver,\" a track so dignified and carried by pads reminiscent of the sound of bagpipes that it would have perfectly punctuated her majesty the Queen's 8-hour funeral ceremony - a wonderful example, by the way, of the spiritual confluence of deceleration and precision that eventually turns into trance. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe slowness is joined by togetherness at the end: Pop Ambient veteran Joachim Spieth cooperates with American sound artist zakè on his literally weightless \"Air\", Thore Pfeiffer co-produced the wonderful \"Instinct\" with Scottish brother duo Andy and Mike Truscott aka Kinbrae. California duo Patrick Hills and Morgan Fox aka Blank Gloss close out the vinyl version with the yearning \"Down At The Heel,\" while that honor falls to debutant Ümit Han on the Pop Ambient CD. \"Sieg über das Ungute\" (victory over the unpleasant) in all its beauty brings us painfully back to reality. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTracklisting \u003cbr\u003e1 Leandro Fresco \/ Thore Pfeiffer Sonne 00:03:41\u003cbr\u003e2 Gen Pop Blue 00:05:45\u003cbr\u003e3 Morgen Wurde Ende Sah feat. 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In order to counteract the perceived fast pace of the times in which we live with a little deceleration, sustainability and relaxation, phenomena such as Slow Food, Slow Travel, Slow Fashion or even Slow Cruising, the tourist sailing of the world's oceans with somewhat smaller cruise ships \"away from the mainstream\", have been introduced into the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThat slowness is more than the opposite of speed, that elements, things, sounds that move as if in slow motion unfold a special power, precision, aesthetics and beauty, doesn’t need to be explained twice to ambient musicians. The 23rd edition of the Pop Ambient compilation, compiled as always by Wolfgang Voigt, is no exception, but instead provides the proof. Already with the first tracks of Leandro Fresco\/Thore Pfeiffer, Gen Pop (Burger, Pfeiffer, Würden), Morgen Wurde feat. Tetsuroh Konishi and Max Würden up to Triola's gloomy and melancholic \"Kupferblüte\", the feeling of a slowness and calmness not experienced before, of an exceedingly lively standstill, creeps over us. A mental state that resembles dreams, in which we follow strange events as if paralyzed, yet awake and sensory.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Cologne-based Sono Kollektiv, an association of experimental artists Annie Bloch, Stefanie Grawe, Joel Jaffe, Alex Linster, Luis Weiß, Moritz Riesenbeck, Lukas Schäfer, Emily Wittbrodt and Max Würden, is represented for the first time with two contributions on Pop Ambient. The two works, the fragile \"Bolzano Sessions IV\" and the rather light-flooded \"Bolzano Sessions V\" (only available on CD and in the digital version) nestle perfectly into the musical whole of this year's compilation, not only in terms of their majestic leisureliness.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn Jens-Uwe Beyer's \"Nero\", melancholic guitar chords reduced to the bare minimum are carried away by the wind like leaves, the reverberation holding the last note so long that it almost comes to a stop in the ear. If you like it synesthetic, look at the once again ravishing cover artwork by Veronika Unland right at this moment. Colors and shapes in which there is both everything and nothing to discover. 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