Where artists that capture meditation within the ambient framework are concerned, it’s hard to go past Nicholas Maloney’s Blanket Swimming project. The Tennessee producer is one of the constant voices in experimental new music, releasing something every month and steadily building up a cult following with it.
With A Quiet Vision, Maloney’s latest piece to drop via Newcastle-based label Cruel Nature Records, we are met with three compositions that are akin to a gushing waterfall. Gentle cascades that take you into a capsule beyond this world.
That unobtrusive, early morning ambient record that hits in the right places? Well, it may just be right here, and while there are many similar records dotted around the new music sphere, perhaps none land better than A Quiet Vision.
With A Quiet Vision, Maloney’s latest piece to drop via Newcastle-based label Cruel Nature Records, we are met with three compositions that are akin to a gushing waterfall. Gentle cascades that take you into a capsule beyond this world.
That unobtrusive, early morning ambient record that hits in the right places? Well, it may just be right here, and while there are many similar records dotted around the new music sphere, perhaps none land better than A Quiet Vision.
Review by Fog Songs
Published October 30, 2022
Published October 30, 2022
Here's an album of softly flowing drones and mesmerizing field recordings, swirling and drifting through peaceful dreamscapes. The music breathes slowly and deeply, enveloping the listener in its sweet poignant sound.
Blanket Swimming is the solo music project of prolific Nashville artist/musician Nicholas Maloney. In this album, he has used improvised electric guitar loops and manipulated field recordings to create three wonderfully minimalistic long-form ambient pieces...with the emphasis being on the shimmering textures and harmonic tensions within the soundscapes, as opposed to the actual melodies or compositions. There's a dreamy innocence about these pieces that is alluring and captivating, and deeply immersive.
'The Quiet Vision' is an album of subtle beauty and peaceful introspection. It is impressionistic ambient music in which you must build your own thoughts and extract your own meaning from. It encourages a sense of calm contemplation. Something we all need to do more of in this mad world. Glorious stuff.
Blanket Swimming is the solo music project of prolific Nashville artist/musician Nicholas Maloney. In this album, he has used improvised electric guitar loops and manipulated field recordings to create three wonderfully minimalistic long-form ambient pieces...with the emphasis being on the shimmering textures and harmonic tensions within the soundscapes, as opposed to the actual melodies or compositions. There's a dreamy innocence about these pieces that is alluring and captivating, and deeply immersive.
'The Quiet Vision' is an album of subtle beauty and peaceful introspection. It is impressionistic ambient music in which you must build your own thoughts and extract your own meaning from. It encourages a sense of calm contemplation. Something we all need to do more of in this mad world. Glorious stuff.
