So this one comes stealing in like a wind intervening from the east filled with a vaporous light and the tender portent inherent, picking its points of impact with a gentle if sharply intuitve grace while simultaneously hewing to the, shall we say, expansive concision upon which the the tenets of the ambient playbook are written. Reflecting (sly pun possibly intended) the piece’s title, this video for the track “Groundwater” from the Pan•American/Kramer camp’s collaborative – and, really, quite extraordinary – Reverberations of Non-Stop Traffic on Redding Road album is, we’re thinking, the most evocative yet from that quietly startling album. In its sepia-hued, bespoke luminescence we first see, briefly, the captain at the masthead, his fat cigar and balding pate, scanning the approaching waters through some gigantic, almost Oz-like navigational scope and within thirty seconds the intersectional lure of the audio-visual is fully in place and one is, as intended, fully engaged as the video thenceforth shifts to footage of the vessel’s mighty bow plying the waters, coming straight at us, its display of steady forward motion somehow managing to encompass the surging raw power of industrialism’s earlier age even while the music behind the imagery lures us further forward … Continue reading STEREO EMBERS EXCLUSIVE VIDEO PREMIERE – “Groundwater” from the Pan▪American/Kramer Album ‘Reverberations of Non-Stop Traffic on Redding Road’