It’s fascinating the way in which instrumental music can evoke specific feelings and sensations despite lacking the cues and signposts of vocal/lyric-led songs. Rather than being guided by a singer, instrumental music requires the listener to bring their own interpretations and experiences to bear, which often leads to deeper, more personal connections. This is something that Italian-born, UK-based composer and multi-instrumentalist Giancarlo Erra clearly understands, with the haunting ambient suite of Departure Tapes suffused with a sense of time and place, a slow-motion film running backwards into the past. This is music to inhabit as much as to listen to.