Photay and Carols Nino have created an ambient album that draws in influences from jazz and classical music. While both ambient and the associated genres typically have long play times to their compositions, the tracks on An Offering are generally shorter more concept driven pieces.
The music mimics nature, be it calm, vibrant, or even violent at points... An Offering does it's very best to integrate the sounds of nature with man made instruments. One track will have distant horns calling as if a distant animal was calling out for its mate. Another will have a guitar strum in the style of rain drops and have a saxophone mimic thunder.
Not everything is as clear as those examples however, some songs are more abstract in their execution. Some will speak on the nature of man and how we are always here, others will have an instrument soloing over nothingness with glitches coming in and out - distorting the music as it plays. No matter what the artists choose to do, it's always interesting.
Interesting however does not always mean good. I'm still wrapping my head around this one and at the time of this writing this remains an interesting release, but not entirely a good one. Sometimes the experimentation loses me, especially the final track where there is an extended vocal sample about the permanence of "now". I simply found it annoying.
An Offering is my first experience with Photay and Carlos Nino. I'm going to spin it a few more times to see if it grows on me, as it is right now though this one is interesting but nothing more.
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