Electronic ambient producer Deborah Martin has collaborated with many great artists over her thirty-year career, but an especially fruitful partnership is the one she established with oboist Jill Haley in 2021 for their joint release The Silence of Grace and the sophomore effort that followed two years later, Into the Quiet.
The melding of Martin’s atmospheric soundscapes and Haley’s resonant woodwinds makes for riveting music, and a deep spell is again cast on the culminating chapter in their ambient trilogy, Rendering Time. Inspired by life’s cycles of birth, death, and everything in between (and beyond), the recording is sequenced to evoke that arc; it also, of course, can simply be experienced as a collection of ten transporting soundscapes…