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 Battle’s Andy Brown goes on an epic, ambient journey.
It’s humorous how all one of the best issues appear to come back out of nowhere. An opportunity assembly on the Drone Bathtub 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 coming into a very vivid dream. It takes over every part; 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 the event you merely placed on a pair of headphones. It’s a kind 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 observe. An natural and step by step increasing panorama layered with vibrant, Bansuri flutes and aching, dreamlike drones. Should you recognize albums like The Disintegration Loops then you definately’ll recognize the temper and tone that’s being set right here. Heavenly and completely unhurried; it will be nearly unimaginable to really feel pressured in the event 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 consistently increasing and dissolving . A soothing loop that – beneath the fitting circumstances – I may fortunately zone out to for hours on finish. Whereas it’s an inarguably delicate expertise, it’s additionally the type of observe that may utterly change your temper and perspective in the event you let it.
Echo for the Unseen is the shortest observe on the album at a sprightly 22 minutes. It’s virtually Prime of the Pops materials. Unhealthy jokes apart, there’s a really delicate 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 throughout the 38-minutes of drones and wordless chanting that make up Spiral of Breath. The sound seeps by way of my headphones like a shadow, making a foreboding but inescapably hypnotic atmospheare. Music like that is perfect for closing your eyes and creating your personal little psychic cinema. Personally, this observe has me imagining I’m stranded on the Nostromo and slowly drifting out into house.
How a lot you get out of the album might rely upon the way you have interaction with its unavoidably prolonged and sprawling buildings but in the event you’re a fan of drone, ambient and experimental music, it’s a journey price taking. Once you lastly take off your headphones, it actually does really feel such as you’ve been elsewhere. Beneath the Hanging Sky isn’t a lot a set of tracks however one thing you merely must expertise for your self.
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You could 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 opinions for Louder Than Battle HERE.
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