https://andrewheath.bandcamp.com/album/drawings-from-imagined-cities
Genre: Ambient
Rating: 4/5
released on bandcamp July 23, 2021
This is the second of Heath’s releases I’ve reviewed. Here’s the first: https://birdboyblizzard.music.blog/2021/03/27/how-to-breathe-like-a-stone-by-andrew-heath-anne-chris-bakker/ How To Breathe Like A Stone by Andrew Heath & Anne Chris Bakker also received a 4/5 rating.
Conceptually, I wish Heath would push the field recordings aspect of his work a little further (keeping in mind I’ve only listened to these two) but I appreciate his intention of being non-disruptive-subtle and the way he leaves it to the listener to decide to pay close enough attention to hear these things or not. Perhaps, if I were more astute I would see that this deserves the 5/5 that I’m admittedly pretty damn generous with thinking of myself as a fan and not a critic. Either way, he’s also subtle on the piano so I’m glad I focused in on that. It’s on the piano, in a what’s now being called neo-classical (a term that has transformed quite a bit since I first read it on the liner notes to one my Bartok records back in the nineties – oh those were the days – floating around Portland on my zebra striped smooth riding cruiser that cost $100 and would cost a ridiculous several hundred dollars in today’s gentrified world – prices inflated by people with cars who just bike for fun twice a year) but anyway Heath is an excellent composer and to my ears that comes out most obviously through his piano.
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