In November 2014, two heavyweights of the ambient experimental music scene released albums addressing atrocities against indigenous peoples. The releases were products of two very different sets of circumstances: Stephan Mathieu’s “Sacred Ground” is a commissioned soundtrack for a film of the same name, whereas Robert Curgenven’s “They tore the earth and, like a scar, it swallowed them” issues from the artist’s deep and longstanding engagement with the history and struggles of indigenous peoples in Australia, the country of his birth. Both albums join the dots between music making and the lived daily practice of ethics and politics, and do so without so much as a nod towards the so-called ‘power ambient revival’ that has made waves on the fringes of the mainstream in the past year.fluid-radio.co.uk/2014/12/traces-of-atrocity/
Posted on: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 21:21:33 +0000
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