Through The Blinds
Blair French
- LP
- Label
- Delsin
Michigan's ambient and soundtrack specialist John Beltran introduces a
new LP that will be co-released by Delsin and his digital only label
Dado Records. Entitled Through the Blinds, it features ten tracks by
Blair French (who also appeared on his Music For Machine compilation on
Delsin last year) and will be released on January 18th 2016. Blair
French aka Dial.81 is an experimental producer and visual artist who won
an award for his score of Detropia—a documentary about his home city of
Detroit—and now makes his ambient debut.
As you would expect of such a project, it boasts suspensory and near
spiritual pieces of ambient music with angelic chords and glassy
textures. There are also more frosty cuts that sound like a chilly
Autumn walk, tracks that feature emotive neo-classical piano pieces and
suggestively rhythmic compositions that sooth your mind. The second half
of the record touches on church like passages of synth heavy sounds,
strikingly sad violins and lo-fi arrangements that sound, one hopes, a
little like what you might hear as you pass from this life to the next.