Product Description
2 Visions in the Smoke
3 Zephyr Flow
4 Lunar Flutters
5 In the Sunburst Clouds
6 Orgonyc Forces
7 Room Discord
8 Warm Plasma
9 Wind of Dissonance
10 Oumuamua
11 Dronewall
12 Motus Dei
13 Melting Zone
Genre: Ambient, Drone, Electronic
Recommend if you like: Brian Eno, Tim Hecker, Aphex Twin
Wind of Dissonance is the second enveloping hybrid ambient collaboration between Italian jarguna (Marco Billi) and American Chris Russell. Through drifting drones, textured layers, and subtle harmonic tensions, the album crafts expansive soundscapes that unfold slowly, blending organic modular recordings with digital electronic subtlety to create a reflective atmosphere rich in nuance and depth.
In this joint exploration, jarguna and Russell draw from their shared affinity for atmospheric storytelling, building environments that feel both vast and intimate. The title evokes the gentle friction within sound itself — moments of contrast and resolution that add emotional weight without overwhelming the serenity at the core. It’s music designed for quiet contemplation where dissonance serves as a pathway to greater harmonic clarity and inner serenity.
As a meeting of two distinctive voices in the ambient realm, Wind of Dissonance explores a sonic space offering respite and subtle discovery amid evolving textures and moods. It’s a breath of beauty found in embracing the edges of harmony.
Reviews Editor –
From Exposé
Several years ago composers Jarguna (Marco Billi) and Chris Russell joined forces for their first collaborative release Transmissions from Serpent Mound. Since both artists do much of their work in ambient music realms, it seemed like a perfect match, and so it was. In the years since both artists have been busy with their respective solo work and other collaborations, but the duo seemed destined to get back together sooner or later and build upon what they had already started. Wind of Dissonance is the long awaited follow-up that opens the next chapter in their musical partnership. The album is comprised of thirteen discrete tracks, all purely instrumental, each built of textured layers, drones, organic soundscapes, and mysterious complimentary sonic artifacts that follow, dreamlike, into a giant atmospheric cauldron of sound where listeners can completely immerse themselves while the two protagonists explore freely and create new environments all around. While the sources of sound hold their secrets, one can often hear synths, stringed instruments, bell-like percussion, and perhaps field recordings, with everything heavily processed, though the end result is mostly free-floating, illustrating the subtleties within the sounds themselves, rather than something that follows meter and melodic considerations, although those are present to a lesser degree in a fragmentary way. On the track “Room Discord,” for example, the piece is highlighted by curious percussive elements that sound a bit like metal springs, while expansive synth chordal elements float in and out of the background, pulling the listener in. The heavily processed sounds one hears on “Zephyr Flow” are a mystery to the core, a dense floating unknown, but nonetheless majestic and beautiful, while the title track wraps the listener in a rich blanket of warmth, dreamy and cryptic, as the listener passes through a soundfield on all sides. No two tracks are the same — not even close — and there is a lot here to absorb; open-minded explorers will surely find plenty herein to pique their interest. -Peter Thelen