Yorkshire Modular Society + Peter Digby Lee: Beneath the Hanging Sky
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Launched 22 August 2025
Yorkshire Modular Society and Peter Digby Lee collaborate on Beneath the Hanging Sky. Louder Than Conflict’s Andy Brown goes on an epic, ambient journey.
It’s humorous how all the very best issues appear to return out of nowhere. An opportunity assembly on the Drone Bathtub in Todmorden, West Yorkshire would result in Dominick Schofield aka Yorkshire Modular Society and Peter Digby Lee creating their first collaborative album. Samples have been shared and loops have been made; ultimately culminating in two hours of instrumental, ambient sprawl entitled Beneath the Hanging Sky.
Listening to this album as a complete is akin to coming into a very vivid dream. It takes over the whole lot; plucking you out of your present actuality and decreasing you gently into a brand new one. Positive, it’ll sound nice sufficient within the background however there are deep chasms of sound to be explored in the event you merely placed on a pair of headphones. It’s a type of albums that ought to maybe include a warning: don’t function heavy equipment whereas traversing the droning dreamscapes held inside this album.
The curtain raises and our journey begins with the albums 35-minute title monitor. An natural and steadily increasing panorama layered with vivid, Bansuri flutes and aching, dreamlike drones. When you respect albums like The Disintegration Loops then you definitely’ll respect the temper and tone that’s being set right here. Heavenly and completely unhurried; it might be virtually inconceivable to really feel burdened in the event you’re adequately tuned in to this blissful frequency.
We go deeper nonetheless the equally sprawling Glass Lung. Modular synths and flutes create an ethereal dronescape that feels prefer it’s always increasing and dissolving . A soothing loop that – underneath the correct circumstances – I may fortunately zone out to for hours on finish. Whereas it’s an inarguably refined expertise, it’s additionally the type of monitor that may fully change your temper and perspective in the event you let it.
Echo for the Unseen is the shortest monitor on the album at a sprightly 22 minutes. It’s virtually High of the Pops materials. Unhealthy jokes apart, there’s a really refined tonal shift with this piece that creates a slight undercurrent of rigidity. The tempo is glacial and the temper otherworldly because the sound of a slow-motion singing bowl beckons you ever deeper into the dream. Go to sleep with this one on and who is aware of the place it’ll take you.
There’s one thing undeniably ominous at play throughout the 38-minutes of drones and wordless chanting that make up Spiral of Breath. The sound seeps by means of my headphones like a shadow, making a foreboding but inescapably hypnotic atmospheare. Music like that is very best for closing your eyes and creating your personal little psychic cinema. Personally, this monitor has me imagining I’m stranded on the Nostromo and slowly drifting out into area.
How a lot you get out of the album could rely on the way you have interaction with its unavoidably prolonged and sprawling constructions but in the event you’re a fan of drone, ambient and experimental music, it’s a journey value taking. Whenever you lastly take off your headphones, it actually does really feel such as you’ve been some place else. Beneath the Hanging Sky isn’t a lot a group of tracks however one thing you merely must expertise for your self.
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You will discover Yorkshire Modular Society on Bandcamp and Instagram.
All phrases by Andy Brown. You may go to his writer profile and skim extra of his opinions for Louder Than Conflict HERE.
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