ABUL MOGARD Vinyl & CDs

Review: Ecstatic's latest long-playing release is a split affair, featuring a track apiece from Italian noise legend Maurizio Bianchi, and near mystical Serbian Abdul Mogard. It's the Italian who steps up first, delivering the 17-minute trip that is "Nervous Hydra" - a curiously spacey, out-there concoction that subtly slips from brooding, industrial inspired intensity to becalmed, soothing ambience in the blink of an eye. Mogard's piece is a little less challenging but no less enchanting, with slowly unfurling synthesizer solos, gently pulsing chords and windswept effects creating a touching, almost melancholic mood. It's a sublime piece of krautrock influenced ambient that packs genuine emotional punch.

Review: If you've ever wondered what the soundtrack to post-Brexit Britain would be, Abul Mogard is here to help. A couple of years ago, he was asked to provide a suitable soundtrack to an experimental film by Duncan Whitley that was filmed on the small island of Portland, off the Dorset coast, in the months following the 2016 referendum. Like the film, Mogard's score - created using modular synthesis, manipulated field recordings and layered organ sounds - is dark, atmospheric and inward-looking, offering a particularly bleak sonic appraisal of the United Kingdom's naval-gazing descent over the last few years. Musically, it's highly impressive and thoroughly absorbing, though we can't see Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson buying copies any time soon.

Review: If you've ever wondered what the soundtrack to post-Brexit Britain would be, Abul Mogard is here to help. A couple of years ago, he was asked to provide a suitable soundtrack to an experimental film by Duncan Whitley that was filmed on the small island of Portland, off the Dorset coast, in the months following the 2016 referendum. Like the film, Mogard's score - created using modular synthesis, manipulated field recordings and layered organ sounds - is dark, atmospheric and inward-looking, offering a particularly bleak sonic appraisal of the United Kingdom's naval-gazing descent over the last few years. Musically, it's highly impressive and thoroughly absorbing, though we can't see Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson buying copies any time soon.

Review: If you've ever wondered what the soundtrack to post-Brexit Britain would be, Abul Mogard is here to help. A couple of years ago, he was asked to provide a suitable soundtrack to an experimental film by Duncan Whitley that was filmed on the small island of Portland, off the Dorset coast, in the months following the 2016 referendum. Like the film, Mogard's score - created using modular synthesis, manipulated field recordings and layered organ sounds - is dark, atmospheric and inward-looking, offering a particularly bleak sonic appraisal of the United Kingdom's naval-gazing descent over the last few years. Musically, it's highly impressive and thoroughly absorbing, though we can't see Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson buying copies any time soon.

Review: Although Abul Mogard has made some stunning albums over the years, in recent times it's his reworks that have been celebrated most. It's perhaps for that reason that Houndstooth has decided to offer up this retrospective of the shadowy artist's most admired remixes. The most notable inclusion is the producer's previously unheard revision of Becoming Animal's "The Sky Is Ever Falling", a stunning, stretched-out soundscape that re-imagines the song as a heart-aching ambient epic. It's almost as good as Mogard's jaw-dropping interpretation of Fovea Hex's "We Dream All The Dark Away", whose fragile folk vocals, ever-intensifying modular synthesizer cycles and layered electronic drones deliver a stunning climax to an impeccable collection of inspired ambient soundscapes.

Review: The Serbian representative of retirement synthesiser success Abul Mogard has a new release to impart which comes forth on Walls' own label Ecstatic. As with previous Mogard releases on VCO Records, there is a quiet, slow-burning intensity to this work, gently unfurling monstrous tones in a harmonious swell that manages to be both comforting and unsettling in the same stroke. With subtle processing at the heart of his sound, Mogard once again demonstrates just how powerful the right combination of signal paths can be at evoking strong emotions, using the most glacial sonic gestures possible as a throwdown to an impatient age.