Green-House - Six Songs for Invisible Gardens

The clue's in the name... LA-based sound artist, Olive Ardizoni, presents a 30 minute, six song suite of gentle, bucolic summer night ambience. A record delightedly at peace with the world, drawing from all the expected sources - From Gardens Where We Feel Secure, Wave Notation series (particularly Yutaka Hirose), the Eno & Laaraji collab, Thursday Afternoon, some of the beatless outliers in the Music From Memory universe... I'm only picking out the good stuff here. As you'd infer from the title, there's a modern re-imagining of Plantasia's new age utopianism, not unlike H. Takahashi's Sonne Und Wasser from last year, forming 'a communication between plant life and the people who care for them', which is nothing if not very nice. And much like kankyo ongaku, there's this conceptual drive to enhance and improve the experience and interaction with private, domestic space. Beautifully hopeful music clearly not made for these times but nonetheless remains a balm for them.