For just over the past year, Aaron Hendrickson, bassist for experimental post-rockers Nigredo, has been crafting ambient electronic soundscapes under the moniker Tree Witch. His latest record, the four-song Mintaka EP, was released earlier today and it features icy sheets of droning guitars and eerie, ghostly tones drifting across windswept fields of atmospheric white noise. It’s moody, entrancing music made for staring pensively into the distance and getting lost in one’s thoughts.
If I was forced to choose a single composition that best communicates Hendrickson’s cinematic aesthetic it would be the opening title track with its spectral buzz and echoing guitars, but, really, this was a record clearly meant to be experienced as one organic whole. In any case, check out “Mintaka” below and then make sure to head over to Tree Witch’s Bandcamp page where you can download the entire EP for free.
Big ups to Nophi Recordings for calling this record to my attention.
More Info:
Bandcamp: www.treewitch.bandcamp.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/treewitchmusic
This is an amazing EP. There is a submitting patience sonically when listening. A lot of ambient soundscape compositions can quickly over express, or dictate a movement beyond the structure’s foundational intent. Tree Witch purely demonstrates the gorgeous touch of minimalism allowing the listener to also engage their own expressions within each movement.