Todd Tobias: Blue Mansions

Ohio based experimentalist Todd Tobias wrote 14 gentle "aeriform vignettes" for his new album Blue Mansions. It is a dreamy excursion with elements of minimalism, ambient and softcore. He did not bother to come up with titles - the numbers are there to mark the transistions between the compositions. It is a very relaxing effort, not to be confused by made to order New Age-y stuff that is taking up shelf space at drug stores.

Tobias is a master of lo-fi sound, being careful not to keep polishing the tracks until they loose all personality and urgency. The tracks on Blue Mansions were built with care, but it is not that hard to figure out where the scaffoldings were before he labeled them as good-to-go masters.

Blue Mansions is released via Tiny Room Records (CD, digital).

Tracks:

1. Blue Mansion I
2. Blue Mansion II
3. Blue Mansion III
4. Blue Mansion IV
5. Blue Mansion V
6. Blue Mansion VI
7. Blue Mansion VII
8. Blue Mansion VIII
9. Blue Mansion IX
10. Blue Mansion X
11. Blue Mansion XI
12. Blue Mansion XII
13. Blue Mansion XIII
14. Blue Mansion XIV

» toddtobiasmusic.bandcamp.com