Pop Ambient 2022

Pop Ambient 2022Vinyl LP pressing. 2022 collection. With the cover artwork for Pop Ambient 2022, longtime KOMPAKT graphic artist Veronika Unland has once again outdone herself. 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

Vinyl LP pressing. 2022 collection. With the cover artwork for Pop Ambient 2022, longtime KOMPAKT graphic artist Veronika Unland has once again outdone herself. 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? Again, 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. Behind 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 & 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. In this sea of unnameable time you could sink forever, but with the tracks of Andrew Thomas, Thore Pfeiffer and Max Würden & Pepo Galán the journey slowly comes to an end.

Track Listing And Details

A1. Blank Gloss - Coiling
A2. Yui Onodera - Cromo 6
A3. Markus Guentner & Joachim Spieth - Kari
A4. Reich & Wurden - Grainscan
A5. Triola - Mutterkorn
B1. Thomas Fehlmann - Rosen Fliegen
B2. Morgen Wurde Feat. Maria Estella - Weiht
B3. Thore Pfeiffer - Isola
B4. Max Wurden & Pepo Galan - Seis Minutos Mas
B5. Andrew Thomas - Kiss The Horizon

LABEL: Kompakt Germany
UPC: 4250101430329
GENRE: Electronic
RELEASE DATE: 4/29/2022
PRODUCT ID: KMPK445.1