Journey Down The Well was originally founded in 2006 by Taner Torun from Turkey and two Swedish artists and as a threesome, they released two albums.
With the departure of the Swedes Torun has now teamed up with fellow Turk and cellist Ipek Zeynep Kadioglu to produce an EP with four songs he says are about "how little things have importance and make people happy with their existence".
Making the most of limited resources, the four tracks , named after the EP's title How, Little, Can Be and An Orchestra, are instrumental compositions which feature playful field recordings of passing cars, a girl yelling, celebrating sports fans and, on the closing track, a chorus of newborn kittens.
Doubtless bored by being labelled as 'ambient' or 'post-rock', Toner describes the music as "classical punk rock" but the mood is so melancholy and muted that it has little in common with the abrasive spontaneity that you usually associate with Punk.
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The quirky sound effects add an unusual dimension to the otherwise formal core classical instrumentation of piano, violin and cello and inject life to what would otherwise be funereal soundscapes.
Nice enough in an understated kind of way.
Offical website of A Journey Down The Well
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