Visible Cloaks / Paradessence / RVNG INTL

Formed in 2014, Visible Cloaks have helped to highlight the work of the ambient avant garde. Through their own music, mixes and curation they have brought wider attention to musicians such as Nuno Canavarro, Lino Capra Vaccina, Iury Lech, Pep Llopis, Lena Platonos, and especially that of Hiroshi Yoshimura and Inoyama Land. It’s the latter Japanese artists that, to my ears, have the greatest influence over Visible Cloaks’ new long-player, “Paradessence”. One half of the Cloaks, Spencer Doran has spent decades archiving and compiling the output of these particular Eno-inspired electronic pioneers, along with that of their fellow countrymen and women whose compositions fall within a genre now known, globally, as “Kankyo Ongaku”. This is especially apparent on pieces such as “Capgras”, a spiralling, sonic shimmer of fresh water frequencies and filtered, fragmented field recordings, and “Disque”, a cool, calming cut of treated trickling. A beautiful shot of synthetic serenity, whose sounds…