‘Dark Clouds’ is a song baked in imagery. The instrumental piece from Ryan Douglas Michelsen is exceptionally calm, filled with subtle and mellow piano work. It’s not long, not short, not high, not low. It’s almost singular, maintaining a consistent ambient texture throughout its runtime to leave you entirely at ease while you’re listening to it. Michelsen’ is a music producer and graphic artist living in the sunny state of Phoenix, Arizona. He’s well travelled, having stepped foot in Europe, Africa, and the Americas. A summation of these experiences and as a result of a career based in visual design, his music also has a vivid air to it, the kind wherein you feel like you’re seeing a world around you come into being.
It is ambient music for the soul, and for the mind. If you want to lie back and concentrate, immerse yourself in the world around you, this is the piece for it on a gloomy day.