by teepoo

No, I did not typo and hit too many letters in the title of this post. The song is in fact called Cold Apppearaance. Maybe it’s supposed to represent the stutter of the words on a cold winter’s day. From Montreal, Ollie North’s music is a type of calm acoustic ambient-folk. They recently released an EP titled Lindenfels which you can grab free on Bandcamp.
Ollie North- Cold Apppearaance

Whenever I’m patient enough, Bandcamp can be full of wondrous discoveries. That is where I found Toronto’s Decommunication. The ambient electronic project has released 2 full length LPs for free on their Bandcamp. The tunes are pretty chill, not for any dance party but makes great background entertainment. Here is For the Sake of Science and Progress from their November 2011 release Midnight Orion.
Decommunication- For the Sake of Science and Progress

You Are My Symphonic is the monicker of Montreal artist Vishal Kassie. His ambient instrumental sounds are full of ornate emotions. They have the sensibilities of a man in love in the city. Here is Rooftop among 8 tracks that you can listen to on Soundcloud.

When I first heard Excercises #3 (Building), I was like “what the fuck, this isn’t CFCF?”. He has moved away from dance music a bit and into instrumental music. Here it’s a meditative piano that becomes decorated with synth. It’s definitely not something you can dance to but in headphones it creates a rather pensive atmosphere. For some reason I like to ponder things to this track. Even if it might not be filled with dance music, I can’t wait for CFCF‘s next album to come out. It’s set to release April 24th, 2012 and that is way too far away.
CFCF- Exercise #3 (Building)

by teepoo

Tension filled, you want this song to resolve the whole time. You think that the first 10 seconds will only last 10 seconds but it doesn’t. That dissonant chord just keeps sustaining. AHHHHH. But yup that is what to expect from the drone filled music of Au Vol. If it’s not your thing you could probably blast this super loud and win any room mate noise war.
Au Vol- Don’t Phone Home
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by teepoo

While we’re on the atmospheric music trend, let’s introduce you to Indoor Voices which is the name behind Torontonian Johnathan Relph. He released his first album Nevers back last September with the help of some talented musician friends. Have a listen to If I Die a track that has some rather captivating ambient background that I can’t stop putting it on repeat.
Indoor Voices- If I Die

Indoor Voices – If I Die from Indoor Voices on Vimeo.

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