Wil Bolton – Cumulus Sketches by James Catchpole
Will Bolton’s ‘Cumulus Sketches’ follows on from 2014’s Bokeh. Continuing on in a deep ambient vein, Cumulus Sketches blends analogue synth with rural and urban field recordings, which were taken in South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, and Sri Lanka. Will Bolton’s latest excursion captures the atmosphere of the East, with its glowing synths producing cool, dusk-stretched melodic monuments which reflect nothing but a fading light. The synths bask in the afterglow of the day; its setting sun is a fireball, burning against the backdrop of the sky until nothing but the blackened ashes of the night remain.