Balmat
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Audiopile Review: There’s a certain, shall we say, distrust of expertise out there these days. Grumpy skeptics might want to lend their ears to ‘Dew Point Harmonics’, the delightful new album from UK-based producer Luke Sanger. There are plenty of IDM-influenced ambient albums floating around, but Sanger’s expertise really elevates...
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Balmat has always been careful not to call itself an ambient label. But with the 11th release, the label turns its ears -- proudly, blissfully -- to a strain of ambient at its most timeless. The appropriately titled Dreams & Whispers comes from Warsaw's Bartosz Kruczyński, who has recorded under...
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Audiopile Review: Panoram’s Great Times is the 10th entry in the always impressive Balmat catalog, a label who have yet to miss on their way to becoming one of the premier electronic outlets of this young decade. Panoram, the project of Italy’s Raffaele Martirani, already has an impressive back catalog,...
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Coral Morphologic and Nick León’s Projections of a Coral City marks a series of collisions between distant worlds: the organic and the artificial, the Eocene and the Anthropocene, sea and cement—and even, perhaps, ambient music and activism. Coral Morphologic are the Miami duo of marine biologist Colin Foord and musician...
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Balmat co-founders Philip Sherburne and Albert Salinas have been fans of Shy Layers’ lilting, Balearic pop for years, so when Shy Layers’ JD Walsh asked us to listen to a set of demos he was working up with fellow Atlanta multi-instrumentalist Jeff Crompton, we jumped at the chance. And once...
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Minor Science -- aka UK-born, Berlin-based musician Angus Finlayson -- makes his Balmat debut with Absent Friends Vol. III, the third installment in a shape-shifting series across a variety of formats and platforms. And with it, he pushes forward his vision of ambient music as neither static vista or merely...
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Ylia -- aka Susana Hernández -- had a remarkably productive 2020. In addition to releasing her debut album, Dulce Rendición, on Barcelona's Paralaxe Editions, she penned compilation tracks for Lapsus Records, Hivern Discs, and Super Utu/Stars on Earth. But professional success can be deceiving: The following year was, personally speaking,...
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When we established Balmat in 2021, neither of us could have imagined that within two years, we’d be putting out an album by one of our musical heroes: Mike Paradinas, aka µ-Ziq. The British producer has been an inspiration to label co-founders Albert Salinas and Philip Sherburne since the 1990s....
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For Balmat's fourth release, the label turns their attention close to home: to the Mallorca-born, Barcelona-based artist Nueen, aka Nacho Pezzati. Nueen has been developing his highly personal style of blissfully Balearic ambient over the past few years, with releases on labels like Quiet Time Tapes and Good Morning Tapes....
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Following her debut album, I'll Look for You in Others (Past Inside the Present, 2022), Patricia Wolf joins Spain's Balmat label with See-Through, her second album. See-Through finds the Portland, Oregon musician and field recordist continuing to develop her signature style of ambient, balancing radiant soundscaping with a carefully expressive...
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Balmat's second release comes from Hoavi, aka Kirill Vasin, a Russian electronic musician whose work approaches what might be familiar reference points -- deepest dub techno, atmospheric ambient, liquid drum'n'bass -- with a singular and refreshing point of view. Balmat first became aware of Hoavi after coming across one of...
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Balmat’s first release comes from Luke Sanger, a Norwich, UK-based artist whose two decades of electronic music-making have encompassed a range of tools and techniques, from MaxMSP to modular synthesis. Along the way he has built an extensive catalog encompassing ambient atmospheres, abstract soundscaping, and more. With Languid Gongue,...
