Be Somewhere Twice – African-American Sound Recordings (2025) – Album Review

Album: Be Somewhere Twice
Artist: African-American Sound Recordings
Label: D.O.T Audio Arts
Release Date: 2025-01-10
Bandcamp: https://africanamericansoundrecordings.bandcamp.com/
Every now and then, an ambient album lurches out of the ether and grabs you by the earlobe, dragging you into its strange gravity past it’s event horizon. Most experimental ambient albums are like Rorschach blots for the ears – ink splatters where beauty is in the eye of the beholder. If you’re looking for it, you can always find it. But this? This isn’t one of those albums. No, this is precision – every stroke of sound a deliberate flood on the senses. “Be Somewhere Twice” doesn’t just sit on the surface with its lush production; it pierces the veil entirely. There’s no ambiguity, no room to wonder what the artist had in mind – you’re not interpreting a message, you’re drowning in it.
A lush kalimba dances and collides headfirst with choral waves of sound, with processed field recordings bubbling beneath – words are so limiting. If you’re a lover of ambient music, you’ll understand the rush, that jolt of discovery when you stumble onto something raw, something original. It doesn’t come easy – this pulsar out in space appears rough at first. It’s a shaky trip through harsh terrain, but soon morphs into a lullaby, dripping with culture and drenched in experience.
This is one of the best ambient albums I’ve heard in a long time. Would absolutely recommend.

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Great review!