Bleep

Slotting itself nicely among the influx of eco-politically-savvy ambient releases from the likes of West Mineral Ltd. and Music From Memory, famed Kazakh-British violinist and composer and staple session musician of left-field rock and electronic heavy-hitters Galya Bisengalieva offers a cinematic eulogy for a collapsing ecosystem with Aralkum. Amorphous compositions like ‘Aralkum’, ‘Moynaq’ and ‘Kokaral’ abstract their abyssal drones into subtly multifaceted landscapes, muddying the waters of remembrance into a quiet rage at a disappearing future, while Bisengalieva’s swooping tones gently sweep across the mountainous sonic pillars on ‘Kantubek’ and ‘Zhalanash’.