v/a - advent (2010, Parvoart)

Conceived as a meditation and celebration of all things wintry, "Advent" is an ambient compilation released on the German label Parvo Art.

Honestly the only name I was familiar with was M. Ostermeier who released an EP, "Percolate" on the same label. His track on this compilation "Sagewood", is delicate, introspective, minimal and moving, one of the three highlights.

M. Ostermeier - percolate (2010, Parvoart)

Marc Ostermeier is with his brother Eric behind the Maryland-based indie label Words on Music, with a focus on shoegaze & dreampop and my favorite band on this label was a stylistically exception, the slowcore band Coastal. The two brothers were also playing, with Tanya Maus, as Should.