Album Notes

"Beautiful, soft, elegant piano melodies and subtle, enveloping drones. Ambessence piano and drones sets a new level of blissful dreaminess" Morpheus Music

"Those who love the ambient works of Brian Eno and Harold Budd should make sure to get a copy of this well produced and composed album" Bert Strolenberg

"Ambessence piano and drones is another excellent release from the label, a release that I'm sure fans of both artists will appreciate very much. I strongly recommend it not only as an excellent introduction to the label but also as an example of how differing styles can be brought together in ways that compliment and develop on each other's strengths" Ping things

"This release from 2008 offers 62 minutes of cerebral piano tunes seasoned with haunting ambience. While Sanfilippo plays a sampled and processed grand piano, Grassow contributes synth drones, glass harp and bow chime.
A distinct combination of tradition and modernism.
As one might expect, the music generally consists of piano laced with textural flows.
The keys are stroked with tenderness, evoking cerebral melodies steeped in a soft serenity. The notes are far from repetitive, utilizing a classical recital touch that comfortably generates lush tunes of gentle beauty.
Meanwhile, the electronics bestow an airy disposition on the tuneage.
Languid atmospherics settle upon each song, immersing the serious piano chords in a fog of ethereal majesty, enhancing the overall elegance of the music.
These tones drift with little variance, maintaining a sighing resonance with the central tunes, following their congenial progress with subtle association, ebbing and rising in tandem with the piano’s emotional state.
A certain transference goes on between the piano and the tonalities, flavoring each other with their personal character.
The piano adopts a discrete intangibility, while the wafting ambience picks up a touch of regal eloquence.
This trade-off serves to further unify the music into an undulant presence of pacifying mien.
Yet there are instances where the textural atmospherics move beyond their fragility and attain a notable substantiality, sometimes rivaling the piano’s lilting occupancy. The compositions are tranquil and stately, crafted for appreciation by an intellectual audience. The application of ephemeral atmospheric electronics only increases the music’s introspective demeanor. There are no surging tempos here, no surprise crescendos, just steadfast structures of soothing influence" by Matt Howarth - Soniccuriosity.com