Epic

This 2010 collaboration between German musician/composer Ulrich Schnauss and Danish ambient psychedelic musician Jonas Munk could be filed under electronic downtempo synthgaze. Munk provides soft and pensive guitar lines to counter Schnauss’s big, baroque and emoting synthbeds, with tracks like Weightless Memories featuring sensitive guitar arpeggios running across synth pads that gently unfurl and softly pulse. The trick here is sonic layering and overlap, with digital editing, wavetable synthesis, analogue filtering, multiple guitar effects and more all driving the audio parts in and out of discernible, recognisable timbres, the swirl of reverb and echo as much a part of the sound as the original notes. 

Soothing and comforting dreamtronica that generates a sense of scale, depth and wide open spaces, endlessly bright and optimistic even at its most reflective or serious moments.