For most people who know Jason Vitelli for more singer-songwriter-based music, Ambient Corridors comes as a bit of a change of direction, stylistically speaking. Okay, tracks such as Snazzy Cats and The Veil, which trailed this album, gave us an indication of the new pastures that he was exploring, but even that brace of understated singles may not have prepared us for an entire album of such minimalist music.
He is minimalist, yet marvellous too, as he proves himself more than capable of taking on such filmic and cinematic realms and making a mark on them. There are tracks such as Unbeknownst, which seem so fragile as if to hardly exist at all, but also the busier, relatively speaking, tones and textures of Sunday Bites the Dust, which concisely displays the pathos of realising that the weekend has run its course and the working week awaits.
The tracks are, for the most part, quite short, with only the previous single, The Veil, and the jazz-glitch avant-gardery of Irrational Quash weighing in at over three minutes. Yet that is all the time he needs to build a series of short, sharply observed and shockingly unique pieces.
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