Passageways

12" black vinyl edition on Whited Sepulchre Records: forestmanagementwsr.bandcamp.com/album/passageways "Passageways is John Daniel's most personal work to date. An ode to his childhood home - a secluded apartment complex in Cleveland that his parents managed - "Passageways" refer to the various connecting hallways running between rooms as much as it refers to the way the passing of time overtakes our perception of spaces that seemed to be endless corridors into discovery and imagination. Passageways is full of submerged melodies, gentle pulls of surging tonal shifts that arc, shimmer and fade into the dark purple hue of the album's shifting overtones. The album rides the line of decaying drones that recall the best of Basinksi or Belong's October Language." - Whited Sepulchre, 2019 “An intensely deep listening experience.” - Exclaim! “His pieces are subtly, but constantly, in motion, mixing sadness, beauty, and unease to create an idea of home that only exists in gradually dissolving memories.” - Bandcamp “Despite this kind of music’s tendency to fade into the background, Passageways works best when played at loud volumes. The compositions are overtly concerned with space, and having them fill a room is a special experience.” - Slug Magazine “Images blur like the memories of the things that happened in these places, past and present collide within John’s own sense of nostalgia, and we’re left to separate our own feelings about our own pasts and presents and their collisions…” - Tiny Mix Tapes “I silently broadcast my state of mind, and in an act of empathy, Passageways rearranges itself into a picture that my present temperament might understand.” - ATTN Magazine

John Daniel creates ambient soundscapes as Forest Management, and the Chicago-based producer excels at them. He uses subtlety as a means to...