Burial

I am constantly about 6 - 12 months behind the rest of popular culture when it comes to music. I'm OK with that though, I think music, as well as other art forms, should be absorbed in an organic fashion, as they become a part of, and relevant to your life.

Anyway, I listened to Burials first album the other week.

At first I think I was trying too hard to analyze the details in his music, and because of this I entirely missed the point of what his music is about. I didn't think it was that great.

However, when I sat back and let the music, the sounds, the just glide over me, I began to understand the mood and sense of space that is create ambiences d in his music.

There's a lesson to be learn there about listening habits.

But more importantly, I have now become fascinated with creating a sense of space in my music - Burial is a master of it and I want to be one too.

So far I am having great success, carefully moulding field recordings into beautiful snippets of space and ambiance.

It isn't the quickest of processes by it really works.