Wil Bolton - Stari Grad [Sound In Silence 123]

Put out on the circuit via the Athens-based Sound In Silence label on June 30th, 2k25 is Wil Bolton's "Stari Grad", a 42 minutes spanning longplay piece which, interms of its title, pays homage to the old town quarters of the Serbian capital of Belgrade in which the album was recorded - more specifically within the confines of Radio Belgrade's Electronic Studio. With both tracks - "Skadarlija" and "Venizelosova" - spanning 21 minutes each Bolton caters what could be referred to as a classic Ambient release for the label, with calm, yet ever moving and meandering panoramic synth pads providing an ideal soundtrack for a hot summer evening - indeed well suitable for a day like today on which temperatures in our hometown of Hamburg struck 30°C and beyond - whereas chirping, tweeting and chattering birds alongside seemingly field-recorded soundscapes of rather unclear origin add a rural atmosphere and harmonic bass tone repetitions are evoking memories of distant klaxons being blown over from a port a few miles down the shore with the second part of the journey indulging into even deeper and slightly more nocturnal Ambient atmospheres and therefore presenting somewhat of a return to the roots of the Sound In Silence imprint for those who've been following them over the course of the last decade or so. Lovely.