Gostrail - "Stones breathing out" track review

written by Thomas

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Stones breathing out is an ambient drone specifically composed to reduce intrusive thoughts, anxiety, and overthinking, according to Gostrail. I'm not sure if I can speak to how successful it is in that regard. Reduced, maybe, but I wonder if my slightly-too-hot garden office is the best place to experience it. I could make it slightly cooler by turning on the air conditioning unit, but with this music in particular I feel like the sound produced would interfere with my experience.

Stones breathing out is 8 minutes of static hum, and that might sound boring to some people, but the joy of ambient music and the joy of drones is the same joy you get when hearing music accidentally created by your environment. Hearing overtones as the train pulls in, a distant construction site, or indeed, an air conditioning unit. The white noise of this track is massaged that these overtones are constant. Harmonics atop harmonics atop harmonics as high as my speakers will allow, and the longer you listen, the more you hear them.

And it's then that you start to notice where deliberate compositional changes have been made in the track. A bass tone that enters or exits the fray. A subtle pat in the distance that barely seems to happen at all. A buzzsaw that cuts through before getting washed away by the sea of white noise.

And to those sitting at their desk putting this on, they might initially only hear that. White noise. But if you let it wash over you, you'll hear an orchestra of machinery that I do think will be enough to distract you from your endlessly chattering brain.

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