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 perfect issues appear to come back out of nowhere. An opportunity assembly on the Drone Tub 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; finally culminating in two hours of instrumental, ambient sprawl entitled Beneath the Hanging Sky.
Listening to this album as an entire is akin to getting into a very vivid dream. It takes over all the pieces; plucking you out of your present actuality and reducing 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 case 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 regularly increasing panorama layered with vivid, Bansuri flutes and aching, dreamlike drones. When you admire albums like The Disintegration Loops you then’ll admire the temper and tone that’s being set right here. Heavenly and totally unhurried; it could be virtually unimaginable to really feel pressured in case 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 suddenly. A soothing loop that – below the proper circumstances – I might fortunately zone out to for hours on finish. Whereas it’s an inarguably refined expertise, it’s additionally the form of monitor that may fully change your temper and perspective in case you let it.
Echo for the Unseen is the shortest monitor on the album at a sprightly 22 minutes. It’s virtually Prime of the Pops materials. Dangerous jokes apart, there’s a really refined tonal shift with this piece that creates a slight undercurrent of pressure. 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 inside the 38-minutes of drones and wordless chanting that make up Spiral of Breath. The sound seeps by my headphones like a shadow, making a foreboding but inescapably hypnotic atmospheare. Music like that is superb for closing your eyes and creating your individual 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 depend upon the way you interact with its unavoidably prolonged and sprawling constructions but in case you’re a fan of drone, ambient and experimental music, it’s a journey price 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 set of tracks however one thing you merely need to expertise for your self.
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You’ll find Yorkshire Modular Society on Bandcamp and Instagram.
All phrases by Andy Brown. You may go to his creator profile and skim extra of his critiques for Louder Than Conflict HERE.
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