Nov 12, 2011 | Antonymes Reviews, Reviews, Slow Dancing Society Reviews
Excerpt: ….It’s the perfect marriage of Sullivan’s 80’s era Ambient meet Hazeldine neo classical minimal ambient. To top it off it’s mastered by Wil Bolton (Hibernate records artists and the owner of the fine “Time Lapse”...
Aug 8, 2011 | Antonymes Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt: “Welsh composer Ian M. Hazeldine, billed as Antonymes, pulled off a balletic balancing act between delicate and distinct, movement and rest with his short debut album ”Beauty Becomes the Enemy of the Future”, released 2009 on Cathedral Transmissions....
Jun 12, 2011 | Antonymes Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt: “The Licence To Interpret Dreams is an inspiring album centred in and around the cinematic ambient and modern classical fields that will surely appeal to fans of Max Richter, Johann Johannsson or Rudi Arapahoe’s brilliant Echoes From One To Another....
Jun 12, 2011 | Antonymes Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt: “The Licence To Interpret Dreams is a captivating yet lethargic album, slowly layering simple parts as a means of carrying the listener along, creating a hazy and ambiguous sense of place, dreamlike in its contours… Rich with imagery from the song...
Jun 11, 2011 | Antonymes Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt [translated]: “Noises, voices and fragments of sound collected in remote and abandoned areas are Hazeldine’s substrate around which he built his first album… As already revealed by its evocative title, The Licence To Interpret Dreams is more...
Jun 5, 2011 | Antonymes Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt: “It’s the lingering of sounds that interests Ian M. Hazeldine. Each note is a point of noise that decays over time, sharp at first, then aging, dissolving and becoming inaudible. These musical representatives of physical piano keys die humbly like waves...
