The Green Kindgom - incidental music (2012, Tench)

Seventh album by Michael Cottone, each one strangely on a different, but always respected indie label.

And I just noticed he is n°11 of my top artists on last.fm. Well I didn't realized he took so much importance in my aural life. Which is why maybe I feel directly connected to this new record,  not really able to start to criticize, much more in a discovery process of new developments which will join his previous corpus.

The Green Kingdom - prismatic (2010, Home Assembly)

New album and, once again, new label for Michael Cottone, this time with a bonus remix CD (The Boats, The Declining Winter, Part-Timer, Northerner, Inch-Time and Bvdub).

While his previous record, "Twig & Twine" left me wanting a more definite direction, "Prismatic" fills me delight. Sounding even more refined than is previous works, it is both more comfortable and more atmospheric, the ambient background is stronger than never but you are fulfilled with fragments of melody.

The Green Kingdom - twig and twine (2009, Own Records)

Each new release by Michael Cottone (from Detroit, Michigan) finds a home on a new label so far and "Twig and Twine" is no exception.

Along the way, his instrumental ambient music, mixing electronic and acoustic instruments isn't changing much, only slowly evolving towards higher degrees of refinement.

The Green Kingdom - laminae (2008, The Land Of)

As a geological term, lamina (plural : laminae) means a a layer of sediment or sedimentary rock less than a centimeter in thickness. It's something that can stay unnoticed if you don't look with care. It's exactly what happens with “Laminae”, second full length by Michael Cottone, a graphic designer and sound artist based in Michigan.