Above the Shore, by Daryl Groetsch

Above the Shore

by Daryl Groetsch

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majorminor Beautiful and blissful. One of the best immersive environmental albums I've heard in a while.

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Above the Shore is a new long-form ambient album released by Portland, Oregon composer/synthesist Daryl Groetsch on April 2, 2024. It is 75 minutes long and designed for relaxing or napping to, carrying the listener to a deep place of calm and well-being. Above the Shore evolves over time, beginning with clarity, and melody, and getting more and more spacious and hazy as it progresses. A 5-minute radio edit is also included.

"Here’s another one I listened to multiple times on that nine-hour flight. Over the 115 minutes of this longform piece, very little could be said to happen; it’s difficult to say what, exactly, is going on under the hood, but it mostly feels like a handful of chords that are continuously melting into one another, timbres and filters constantly morphing to bring out new tones. There’s a Cocteau Twins-like sensibility to it; at times I’m reminded of The Moon and the Melodies, as though that album had been dunked in colored liquid and subjected to endless reverb. It’s not at all a complicated listen; it’s warm, consonant, and repetitive. But it’s also suffused with a subtle sense of mystery. It may return to the same points, over and over, but every time, you’re left not quite knowing how you’ve gotten there." -Futurism Restated / Philip Sherburne

"If light made an audible sound, the new EP from Daryl Groetsch would be your reference point for the radiant glistening sunlight, glimmering off the ocean surface and dancing in your eyes. It’s the sound of the cool, early morning light breaking through the fog, rolling in waves of mist over the grassy sand dunes, and into the sleepy coastal towns. Each meandering sequence of blurred sounds and textures feel like the brisk sea air blowing across your skin, coaxing you into a state of bliss with the slow rumbling of resonant drones and misty ornate luminescence. The entire listening experience is a continual soft, thunderous mantra like that of the ocean shore, hypnotizing you into elevated states." -The STOLACE | RELAY STATION

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released April 2, 2024

Music and cover photography by Daryl Groetsch.
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Daryl Groetsch Portland, Oregon

Daryl Groetsch has been making synthesizer based ambient music since the late 90’s. Most of his work since then has been under the name Pulse Emitter. Returning in 2022 to this form of pure ambient space music fulfills a vision born from hearing a late-night ambient program on public radio as a kid, and striving to achieve this sound ever since. ... more

discography

Above the Shore

Apr 2024
Prophecy

Nov 2023
Gardens in Glass

Jul 2023
Frozen Waste

Jul 2023
Living in the Clouds

May 2022
Scenes from Some Planet

May 2022
Ease

Mar 2022
Solitude

Mar 2022
Beige World

Jan 2022
Home Again

Jan 2022

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