SLATE AND ASH Cycles £279
Will Slater and Simon Ashdown may not be familiar names to people in mainstream music production but the sound-design duo, who bill themselves as Slate + Ash, have a lengthy list of professional credits that extend to Hollywood feature films and beyond. You’ve probably heard their work before – perhaps as part of Jóhann Jóhannsson’s Arrival score, Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow’s work for Annihilation, or on the National Geographic documentary series One Strange Rock – whether you realise it or not. When a pairing of this pedigree releases a Kontakt instrument that has creativity, musicality and live performance at its core, it’s worth investigating.
