French sound artist Félix Blume keeps pushing the boundaries of field recordings. “Fog Horns” captures the sounds of boat horns in Piraeus, Athens, Greece, the port city that serves some of the most important ferry routes in Greece nowadays. Yes, boat horns can be annoying, sometimes disturbing and even absurdly disrupting if you live in a port city. But there is something magical about these horns.

In the eighteen minutes of the first side, Félix Blume explores the concept of a concert played by those horns. The horns dominate but sounds of the surroundings create a perfect balance to the drone hysteria. The surrounding sounds are the heartbeat of this track. The horns are the metal section of an orchestra, while the rest works like the strings. Hidden melodies are revealed when you listen to this with your full attention, and the more you do it, the horns become less present, vivid. It’s one of the many crafts of Félix Blume, the more you live with his music, the more you focus outside the plot.

The three tracks on the other side are “remixes” of the same recordings, paying respect to what Ingram Marshall did in “Fog Tropes” in three different ‘movements’. This part feels like a horror film. The warmth disappears to become cold ambiance, beautifully textured and enigmatic sounds take over.

This record has 4 tracks (33 mins. total time) and was released in 2019.