Ambient music from the 1980s, despite having benefited from a radical reappraisal in recent years, remains one of the great under-explored treasure troves of the musical underground. Often produced on DIY set ups, released in tiny editions, and misunderstood in their own time, these sounds, when heard with the benefit of hindsight, rise as an alternate stream of Minimalism and the musical avant-garde. Few artifacts reveal these truths better than Brent Snyder's Cumulus - issued privately in 1985 on cassette - a stunning expanse of sound, which now, at long last, Morning Trip brings back to our ears as a glorious LP - the first ever reissue of any kind.

Partially inspired by Frippertronics and Brian Eno, Brent Snyder's Cumulus was humbly recorded on a 4-track in his Toronto apartment in 1985. Sadly, at the time of its release, it barely found an audience beyond the small avant-garde theatre scene to which he belonged. Comprised of two side-long, loop-based guitar works, washes of tone and ambience almost entirely defy standing expectations of its sole instrument, flirting closely with the territory explored by American West coast minimalist peers like Chas Smith, Michael Jon Fink, and Daniel Lentz, and ambient pioneers like Steve Roach and Ariel Kalma.

Sublime and immersive, and endlessly surprising, Cumulus unfolds as a sonic world of entirely its own making - equally of and ahead of its time. Tragically, its creator’s lone recorded release, this is an absolutely incredible and visionary body of work, emerging for the first time in decades to be heard by the audience it’s always deserved.