PETER WRIGHT - An Angel Fell Where the Kestrel Hover

An Angel Fell Where The Kestrels hover follows up on Peter Wright's Snow Blind double album, released earlier on in the year via the Install label. Where that recording focused on what Wright perceived to be the "foreboding darkness and gloom of winter", this album - its sunnier counterpart - is designed as a portrait of the brighter, livelier summer months. The substance of Wright's material is comparable to recent 12k fare such as Seaworthy's 1897; there's a similar emphasis on pastoral location, while much of the more musical component of the music's driving force originates from effected guitar passages. After a couple of tracks that owe something to Robin Guthrie's ambient guitar processing, Wright unleashes a flurry of field recordings on 'Lavender Buzz', with bees, tweeting birds and a great density of activity all accounted for. Similarly, 'River Lea Time Lapse' absorbs the various surrounding noises and integrates them into a swelling drone. At this point the album takes a turn towards highly mellifluous, ornamental ambience, and although it brings nothing new to the genre its tunefulness and level of detail makes for an intoxicating, balmy listen. Boomkat

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PETER WRIGHT - An Angel Fell Where the Kestrel