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- Summary: The posthumously released album was the first new music in over 30 years for the San Francisco-based composer.
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- Record Label: RVNG Intl.
- Genre(s): Electronic, New Age, Avant-Garde, Experimental Ambient, Experimental Electronic, Space
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The WireApr 6, 2021There may only be nine tracks here, but it’s like there are worlds upon worlds to explore; Strom had a knack for making every note feel special. [Feb 2021, p.55]
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Mar 5, 2021As well as being aware of frequencies in our immediate surroundings, deep listening observes cosmological energies. Angel Tears In Sunlight seems to resonate with Oliveros' observations by interweaving distant galaxies with her own rapturously intimate sonic sphere. One of Oliveros' greatest assertions is that is not only the ear that listens – you listen with your whole body.
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UncutApr 6, 2021Offers the kind of transcendental electronics that burrow into your brain. [Mar 2021, p.37]
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Mar 5, 2021Angel Tears in Sunlight, her final album, continues in the same expansive, unconstrained mode as her earlier work but explores different tonal realms.
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Mar 5, 2021Her soundscapes are transportive and evocative, but they also contain detail and texture that plays with a sense of natural versus unnatural soundscapes, the real versus the imagined. Left in the between space, this is fascinating stuff.
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Mar 5, 2021It is as gloriously varied as her 1980s output. Some tracks see her taking Steve Reich-style minimalist marimba riffs but escorting them through endless harmonic mutations.
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Mar 5, 2021The music of Angel Tears in Sunlight is in no hurry, but stick around and it will take you to zones that breathe with ancient life.
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