Oberlin has been floating around TSMM's blog and playlists for a while, having released music on most of my pet ambient labels and, as with "Days and Joys", self releasing direct to streaming or via his own Bandcamp page. Hailing from small town Germany he has a very nice line in ethereal electroacousticism, a daydreamy place where his minimal guitar and piano melt into zero gravity electronics as well judged field recordings drift in on the faintest of breezes.
"Days and Joys" is all about remembering summer, and what better time to drop such a track than late autumn when the clocks have changed and winter's chill is coming over the horizon, although with northern Portugal's current 22C and sun blessed Indian summer that has still to happen here.
Wisely the track is guitar led, the minimal picking adding extra acoustic warmth to the relaxing ambient electronics. Thankfully the ubiquitous bird sounds have been eschewed. Instead the faint sounds of children, liberated from school by the summer vacation, are a constant companion through the sprawling track, and what more joyous summer image to conjure than excitable youngsters running free through the parks, kicking balls or picking flowers all day?
You couldn't really wish for a more onomatopoeic ambient track, truly this track is the faded memory of summer, and sounding particularly nice in the Slow Ambient Playlist (available on multiple platforms), if you need a longer ambient sound bath.
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