Jogging House - Unrund (Seil)

*** This blog post first appeared in TSMM's April, 6th Newsletter, where you can get all the tips (and more) first ***

Despite stiff ambient competition this week Jogging House has narrowly pipped it to the #1 spot, with quite possibly his best work to date, and being as I pretty much support all of his music that is saying something.

If you’re not familiar with Jogging House then he’s a German chap called Boris who’s based in Frankfurt, and has decided to try slowing the world down a bit by producing good natured ambient music, enabling ambient community in the Discord shadows and also running one of my favourite ambient labels, the ever interesting and TSMM attuned Seil Records.

His new LP is a collection of studies on the movement of time, something most of us don’t consider until a chunk of life has swept downstream in a torrent of study, work, parenting and social engagements. Well if you’re under fifty then get ahead of the game, sink into this beauty and contemplate the march of time before it’s too late and your knees can’t cope with that Himalayan trek you always wanted to do.

Based around a velvety modular setup, he’s also brought along his electric guitar, kalimba, and various types of paper (I kid you not) to help translate his emotions to musical form, provide some tonal shifts and add some subtle sonic details for the attentive listener to explore. Remarkable all eight, thirteen minute plus tracks were recorded in single takes on 1/4” tape to further round the already soft edges and add that dull ferrous warmth so beloved of the ambient world.

Trying to describe the joys and sonic ambiguity of such formless music will take a better man than me, but if you need an extended sound bath then I urge you to get yourself comfortable, close your eyes and sink into the warm waters he’s kindly provided, before heading over to his, and the label’s back catalogue.

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Playlist Companion

Find Jogging House adding some long form horizontalism to the Slow Ambient Playlist.