Review: As you may have picked up on from the title here, Dedicated To The Island: Soundwalk & Music For Saunter Magazine was originally produced as a CD supplement carried with Saunter Magazine for its sixth issue - Yakushima 2023. The documentary publication focuses on food and travel, and is very much part of the slow journalism movement, its goal to offer readers a bird's eye view of the world from remote islands. Now repackaged and ready to be sold as a standalone album, you may have preconceptions about what this will sound like. If you picked nine tracks of Balearic-hued, organic-feeling, electronic ambient goodness, with field recordings to boot, then congratulations, because that's exactly what's in store here. A stunning, blissful, deep listening experience vivid enough for you to get lost in.
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