“Cathartic soul-bearing space prog masterwork.”
Prog Magazine
still loveGhost Against Ghost
Press
Critical coverage of Our Silent Canvas releases.
“a beautifully crafted ambient opus, inspired by transcendent experiences of nature and submerging listeners in this fantastical dreamscape through organic field recordings and avant-garde sound design”
MixMag
A Walk in the WoodsNous Alpha
“The best tracks allow themselves a bit more looseness and unnatural density, as on close 'Forest Jam' where loops of tuned percussion, acute synth riffs and ripples of Durutti Column guitar battle without hate.”
The Wire
A Walk in the WoodsNous Alpha
“sparks of ingenuity and emotive transcendence, this continued collaboration sets an otherworldly, spiritual scene; a funnelled journey into the cerebral and back out into the expanse that offers sonic awakenings and meditative revelations aplenty.”
Monolith Cocktail2021-04-27
A Walk in the WoodsNous Alpha
“'Fox Hollow' is an incredible piece of experimental, new age-bent ambiance”
Destroy Exist
A Walk in the WoodsNous Alpha
“an immersive fusion of organic beats and electronic soundscapes”
DJ Mag
A Walk in the WoodsNous Alpha
“An ambient tone is often present, but the musical forest seems always in bloom”
A Closer Listen2021-03-16
A Walk in the WoodsNous Alpha
“Evokes a wide array of inspirations to create a vast and intense field of sounds. Bono constructs a darkly spiritual aura in this post-rock inspired composition.”
Stereogum
still loveGhost Against Ghost
“Still Love is a mighty work of art that juxtaposes pop-sensitivity with an intense listening experience.”
Arctic Drones
still loveGhost Against Ghost
“Ghost Against Ghost's New Song 'Resume' Is A Slow-Moving, Cinematic Destroyer”
Metal Injection
still loveGhost Against Ghost
“Christopher Bono's soaring, dense and rich musical score encapsulates all of the joy and pain of this journey in one of the most ambitious and challenging modern classical pieces I have heard in some time.”
Restless & Real2014-12
BARDOChristopher Bono
“If you didn't read the liner notes or have any frame of reference for Bono's inspiration, it could totally sound like the soundtrack for an amazing RPG or fantasy film. Played straight through it is like a saga told in sound.”
Second Inversion2014-07-21
BARDOChristopher Bono
“Bardo is a huge soundtrack of sadness and Tibetan mysticism, and sometimes dramatic.”
Democrat & Chronicle2014-07-21
BARDOChristopher Bono
“a spellbinding meditation”
Ink192024-05
GabbareinGabbarein
“If Lisa Gerrard (Dead Can Dance), Karin Dreijer (Fever Ray) and Aurora had teamed up, you wouldn't have come close to the depth and breadth of this… intimate and fascinatingly captivating… there is little else like this.”
VG
GabbareinGabbarein
“a sonic and visual ode to the complexities of human emotion”
Idioteq
GabbareinGabbarein
“We find it breathtaking”
The Wild Calling2024-02-01
GabbareinGabbarein
“often sounds like contemporary classical viewed through an extreme metal lens, and the result is pretty exciting stuff.”
Brooklyn Vegan
NOUS IIINOUS
“spontaneous-sounding, heavily percussive recordings”
Flood Magazine
NOUS IIINOUS
“a hypnotic piece of moody post rock, balancing vibraphone pulses with urgent drumming and some dusty strands of noir guitar and strings. It's stunning.”
Treble
NOUS IIINOUS
“The collective conjures a transfixing instrumental display that keeps with the band's 'Godspeed You! Black Emperor playing krautrock' ethos… my most anticipated album dropping this month”
Heavy Blog is Heavy
NOUS IIINOUS
“shows collaborators deep in the flow with layered percussion, an undertow of groove, wordless vocals and multiple peaks and valleys as the 4 minutes stretch into an infinite ocean of sound. Incredible work.”
Tome To The Weather Machine
NOUS IIINOUS
“Circle of Celebration is a stirring ode to the power of collaboration, but also, in simpler terms, to music's role as a vehicle for sheer joy.”
Loud and Quiet
Circle of CelebrationNOUS with Laraaji and Arji OceAnanda
“Hearing his (Laraaji) baritone soar over this endlessly groovy, locked in composition from Christopher Bono's NOUS project is a joyous flash of life.”
Tome to the Weather Machine
Circle of CelebrationNOUS with Laraaji and Arji OceAnanda
“Textured and bucolic, its 10 pieces are gently rhythmic tapestries of new age melody, wordless vocals, dubwise undulation and, pleasingly, cascades of actual laughter”
Mojo
Circle of CelebrationNOUS with Laraaji and Arji OceAnanda
“It is hard to express exactly how uplifting this music is, how it creates a bright, lucid, dreamlike space and maintains excitement and calm somehow simultaneously”
Dusted
Circle of CelebrationNOUS with Laraaji and Arji OceAnanda
“Tsyphur Zalan make horror movie-ready music inspired by everything from trap to black metal”
Nowness
The Spectacle is The Theatre of The SublimeTsyphur Zalan
“'Fish, Father, Phoenix' employs taped fragments… and nature recordings over an ensemble of winds, strings, and percussion, mixed in a montage that raises questions about the meaning of life.”
AllMusic— Blair Sanderson
InvocationsChristopher Bono
“Christopher Bono's spectacularly haunting Unity & The Unexcelled Mantra EP (which even as an EP bests out many full length choral recordings in the last five years)…”
Alto RiotRunner-up: Best of 20132013
Unity & The Unexcelled MantraChristopher Bono
“'Masterpiece' is a big, important word. But sometimes you just have to say it.”
Promo News
Unity & The Unexcelled MantraChristopher Bono