Time for another journey into the ambient genre with our guides, this time, being Tim Didymus & Foster Neville and our destination being their collaborative album “Ulla.”
This is indeed an album for headphone listening with the twelve component parts – it seem somewhat disingenuous to call them songs – being pensive combinations of the natural and the synthetic with the result meandering with an almost military meticulousness between precisely assembled melodic constructs and some seemingly organic soundbites. Only the technology used really roots this music in the present and, although the future may well end up sounding like this too, this approach used by Tim Didymus & Foster Neville does, almost inevitably, induce a feeling of timelessness whilst remaining firmly on the sober side of the mystical forest.
Nothing may come of it, and perhaps nothing was meant to come of it, but “Ulla” still easily qualifies as a suitable soundtrack for contemplation.