11. David CasperTantra-La
I heard this from a friend of mine, John Tye from Lo Recordings. We’d go to his house in Cornwall, and he just put it on one afternoon. It’s two very long tracks, and it was just the perfect record for one of those afternoons where you’re just ambling about not really doing very much, and you just want something to drift in the background. Even though it comes from new age music, there aren’t any whale noises or washy synth pads. The sound of it is very acoustic, so you’ve got oboe and strange glass instruments and acoustic bass all drifting in and out. It hasn’t got that kind of uniformity that you’d find in a lot of new age because it feels like people playing live in a room. It’s got this underpin of drone, but also very beautiful melodic ideas coming through.
