The Sound of Mountains - Every Burden, Every Crown (self-released)

Christopher Morin, the person behind The Sound of Mountains freely admits that his music isn’t for everyone. But, I would qualify that by saying that it may be for everyone, just not for every occasion. But when you want music that seems to evoke thoughtfulness and reflection, music that is accessible without being intrusive, music to be absorbed by some sort of effortless osmosis rather than being forced on the senses, he is undoubtedly your man.

As the last single before a full album drops, “Every Burden, Every Crown” sees him in his familiar territory – that of ambient drifts and cinematic soundscapes, floating creativity only lightly tethered to chiming piano lines, a place of analog sounds and digital washes, of breathtaking, filmic beauty, of gracefulness and delicacy.

Christopher’s approach to music also reminds me of the most excellent Forest Robots in that both are, in part at least, love letters to the natural world, music inspired by the majesty of the environment around them that each artist sees and both sonically and physically explores. And, like Fran Dominguez Sierra Nevada-inspired music, this too, bereft of lyrics, does all its talking through the sonics themselves and, in doing so, describes a vastness and a beauty, a scale and a restlessness that words could only fail to capture.

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