Lambent - 2009 - Smoothness Extract (Deep Night at Ishigaki)

Label: Project: Mooncircle
Cat#: PMC047
Format: CD
Date: 2 Oct 2009
Style: Instrumental Hip-Hop, Downtempo, Abstract, Breaks, Experimental

‘Smoothness Extract (Deep Night At Ishigaki)’ is Lambent’s third full-length, and his first on Project Mooncircle, following previous albums more rooted in experimental ambient electronics for Insine and Expanding.

This record presents his sound in the context of instrumental hip hop, with strong elements of electronica still present. You could group it with the recent wave of Dilla-inspired beats, but equally it could sit with Autechre when they’re at 90 BPM. The album came about after Project Mooncircle heard some of Lambent’s tracks and fell in love with the calmer and smoother parts of his often intense sound. Hence, Lambent compiled these seventeen extracts from the gentler side of his repertoire.

This album is made as his dedication towards a small Japanese island, named Ishigaki. Berlin-resident Lambent is originally from Japan, but he has never visited this place… ‘Smoothness Extract’ is the soundtrack to a summer night trip around the island, visiting the many different aspects of the scenery, nature, feelings, emotions, sights and sounds as Lambent imagines them.

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