Bleep

The perpetually mysterious and utterly fascinating creator of ambient harmonic empathy Abul Mogard returns with yet another work of staggering ambition and disarming beauty. In Immobile Air channels Mogard’s characteristic drones and meditations on memory and altered states through an old Bechstein upright piano built in 1891 — a conceptual tool as much as a musical one — as the vaporous tones eke out a uniquely brain-softening form of awe-inspiring delicacy. The stillness of the album’s title is reflected in glacial tonal changes, each an expression of placid calm as much as an impending omen of doom.