Olivier Cong - Tropical Church [Someone Good Promo]

Scheduled for release on July 19th, 2k24 via Someone Good, sub- / sister-label of the Australian Room40 imprint, is "Tropical Church", the latest full length album outing cooked up Hongkong-based producer Olivier Cong who, inspired by a tropical rainshower he sheltered from in a local church, set out to produce an album which reflects the soundcapes of his hometown and -state, reconstructing and drawing inspiration from the cities overall ambience whilst sculpting a soundscape from electronics, piano, Spoken Word layers and a plethora of traditional Chinese instruments. With the end result being a thirteen tracks and 54 minutes spanning album Cong's sonic vision incorporates organic Ambient structures as well as somewhat futuristic bass pulses to be found in tunes like "Solace" whereas cuts like the subsequent "They Don't Sleep On The Beach Anymore" evoke memories of floating, almost crystalline and time defying New Age music, "Burning" is as calm, rural and intimate as near field recordings of wind instruments might ever get whereas "Solitude Study" seems to hark back to twangy, slide guitar Desert Blues, "When The Labour Is For Love" adds some washed out misty melancholia with an autumnal twist to the mix whilst the "Solid Sun" provides an excellent blueprint for atmospheric nocturnal minimalism mixed with what seem to be FoundSounds or Field Recordings in 2k24 just to name a few. Quite a comforting album, this.