Obscure Sound Review 7.21.22
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California-based artist Ezekiel James Hampton creates music under the name Radagast the Brown. He crafts a riveting spell with his ambient, cinematic works, taking inspiration from neo-classical, drone, and new-age. The More They Tell Me About You, The Less I Believe Them is the project’s new album. Per Hampton, it takes inspiration from “the separation of faith from religion, separation from another human whose mere existence haunts me and is meant to curate the internal reflective musings that overlap.”
“Buoy Blues for the Fishers of Men” is especially exemplary of striking atmospheric shifts, resembling a rich cinematic narrative. One sequence resembles a dark shift in tone, from the summer delights of an ice cream truck twinkling down the street to the oncoming swell of a darkening storm cloud. A caressing pulsing takes place amidst gentle ocean waves in the track’s conclusion, akin to a calm clearing following the nightmare.
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