I haven’t written about a good ambient band in a while. Joshua Carro is doing a really great job. The release date for his album “From Water” on Bandcamp is set as March 12, 2012, but you can stream it all right now. He’s making some of the coolest electroacoustic impressionism around. There are much more complex beats and dissonance than you’d usually expect from somebody who labels themselves as minimalist. This is really good and really interesting.

The album is broken into four scenes and it’s all free to download. The first scene starts out simple and then slowly builds into an elaborate system. The second scene is immediately complex, both rhythmically and melodically. My music appreciation would have trouble classifying this. She’d probably try to call it jazz. Scene two is also the longest, coming in at one minute and fifty-three seconds. It has a very fast drum roll right in the middle for quite a while that really makes you pay attention.

Scene three is the shortest at just one minute and eight seconds, but it’s also the simplest. He employs rubato on this piece, gradually moving in and out of the rhythm as he goes. This man is a classical music composer. There’s no other way to say it. He loves the classic themes, but he loves modern drumlins.

Scene four closes off the piece with a bang. From the very start, this one is exciting. There are more complex rhythms than throughout, and the music is overall more jovial. Be sure to listen to this entire work on Bandcamp when you get a chance to sit down and enjoy it.