This album bringing me right back to the place where I left this blog 8 years ago. At that times i was heavily searching for elecroacustical ambient and instrumental electronica. Now it's quite a rare genre, most of it left and forgotten over small net-labels and cdr imprints around internet, but his releases is rare example of that style that continue to living with personalities like Brady Kendall - man behind Alaskan Tapes.
According to his Bandcamp page, Brady are based of Toronto and started to release under this moniker around 2015. His early released exploring piano and instruments and it seams for me, that with the time he proceed his instruments and composing skills to the further level with additional focus towards texturing and experimental approaches to his material. "Sleeping Since Last Year" have very thick depth and many layers of slight and gradual ambiance. It feels warm and open. All of five tracks on this album is not alike, you can able hear different instruments - guitar, piano, strings along with synth pads and elements of field recording and singing gives it an extra calm atmosphere. This kind of music I prefer to listen to on slow and sunny Saturday mornings.
Available on CD and Cassette editions separately and in bundle.
bandcamp: https://alaskantapes.bandcamp.com/album/sleeping-since-last-year
https://alaskantapes.com/