ISIGTUTEOT carry on their great start to 2009 with a sublime Ambient and Modern Classical album from Pembrokeshire’s Martin Boulton, aka Min-Y-Llan:

"To Be Where Life Is"

Every now and then there is an album that just needs to be played from beginning to end. This is one of those albums. This truly resplendent selection of Ambient and Modern Classical master works by Martin Boulton takes you on a glorious sojourn through the artists life and surroundings in magnificent style. 

The album begins with the deep, dark and broody ‘Wet White Sand,’ which lulls you into a false sense of insecurity before it gives way to the gorgeous ‘Water Way’ with its rich strings and pads. The piano driven ‘Dark Lights’ paves the way perfectly to the profound Verbose (A Reason)’ which is a homage to Allan Richmond, who inspired Martin to capture his thoughts in sound. 

Track 8, ‘Growing Up in Spring Gardens’ takes us down an altogether different path with a 4x4 driven number, with a deep arpeggio bassline, filtered percussion and high reaching strings, which soars to lofty heights. The Chris Morris inspired ‘Twisted Brain-Wrong of a One-Off Man Mental’ takes us further; into the intense, beat driven IDM arena in its dark, almost stygian, semblance layered with rich strings and pads.
The album gets back down to more ambience with more exquisite Modern Classical in the form of the celestial ‘Time and Space’ and the solemn, emotional, lush pads of ‘She Put Me Here (Mum’s the Word)’ which brings this sublime album to a close.

Top work by a top producer of the future. Look out for “Min-Y-Llan ‘The Letterston EP’” (PS06) which is due out on the same day, February 8th (the artists birthday) on Parallax Sounds.