Polar Seas Recordings Vinyl, CD & tapes from this label at Norman Records

The first release on Polar Seas Recordings from Moss Covered Technology, the recording name of English producer Greig Baird, creator of some of the most compelling ambient albums of recent years. Balancing melody with texture in a series of pleasingly varied minimalistic pieces, Slow Walking comes on a very small vinyl run. 

Bradley “anthéne” Deschamps’ Polar Seas label introduces another grand player in Reykjavik musician Mikael Lind, whose previous ports of call include Morr Music and Time Released Sound. Although it does nothing to help clichés about music from Iceland, Strings and Clusters does brim with ethereal strings, glacial textures and billowing, snowy grains. A soundtrack to BBC nature documentaries never made, a giant Sigur Rós interlude, a melancholy Instagram dreamscape of barren valleys and vistas… this one has it all.