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-Goldmund – a melodius, minimal and golden ambient
Is Goldmund the opposite of Narcissus, a person that makes the world beautiful? Goldmund the musician has produced so far 4 albums with a work that can be called ambient, music you can let fill the air with subtlety and care, while you do what you do.
He uses just a piano (‘prepared’, that is with a distorted sound due to various changes in the chords), or sometimes a guitar (used also like a prepared piano…) – or, to say it better, he just uses sounds that are soft or strange and tend to resemble the piano.
From his appearance with Corduroy Road Goldmund did not make anything without interest. You can choose any of his records, and, if you can appreciate this music, you won’t regret it. However, there is some development in what he does, that might shape your choices.
Corduroy Road is focused on subtlety, softness and strangeness, while The heart of high places is more like Brian Eno’s ambient music, more melodic and ‘minimal’, and also faster and sometimes ‘wild’ (all four holy mountains, the last track, is closer to the first album).
Two Point Discrimination, is more mature, focused on a minimalism where experiment and melody work as ornaments, it is sometimes wild, sometimes surprisingly polyphonal, sometimes just surprising! The Malady Of Elegance, Goldmund’s last record is more ambient. It includes of course all the elements of the previous records, even “Christmas” like nuances that were present in Corduroy Road, it is melodius and tender. It starts impressively, but after a while seems like exhausted.
I’d rather keep all of Goldmund’s records, but if I had to choose, then I would keep Two Point Discrimination.
Cf. Goldmund’s records at Amazon
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