FTAL 022 - October 2014
Siavash Amini - What Wind Whispered To The Trees (Future Sequence CD/DL)
Sun Drugs - Low (BLWBCK CD/DL/MC)
Through positivity comes the choice to free your inhibitions, talk sense from senselessness, and henceforth spread that positivity wider. That said, the negative is never without derision. It just comes about that in 21st Century social media context, the thinkers are dogmatic. In relation to the ambient, drone and electroacoustic online music scenes, this ever-changing perception becomes something to believe in, since Future Sequence, a site amongst others including Fluid Radio and Headphone Commute, have pioneered the online zine/label/podcast triumvirate harder and faster than any of their peers in these scenes. Personally it's down to that meeting of positivity and derision, a quality that Siavash Amini nicely surrounds on his debut album for the Future Sequence outlet.
"The Wind", titularly, contextually and literally, is not necessarily overcast in timbre as music, but does rumble like a power shower from the heavens. Natural electronics, if there ever were such a thing, place hot points on the chord base, which ruffles minor key feathers and displays a similar sustenance to colour of that of a peacock tail. "Dark Oak Woods" trails Sigur Ros and Hilmar O Hilmarsson's "Degradation" from "Angels Of The Universe OST", a lesser known Japanese import. Film is a source of inspiration for Amini, mainly Tarkovsky's "Stalker", and the line walked is equally pensive to that characterisation. Elsewhere "Aliosha And The Fire" is a musical re-enactment of the scene in 'The Mirror' flick, the track suitably burning its cello and violin melodies away like a firecracked gauze in half light.
Similarly soporific to Siavash's Arvo Part influence introduces Patryk Kawalarz' Sundrugs project. On "Low", mastered by the reputable engineer, producer, writer and performer Lawrence English, hazy night time harmonies (the release is inspired by walks around Warsaw, Poland at night, as well as love) intermingle with rhapsodic and elegaic synthesiser drift. They're rhapsodic since, like Andrew Chalk's "49 Melodies In Rhapsody Wave Serene", they last up to 5 minutes as generally dark drone compositions except for the 22 minute closer "2082". Opener "..." sounds like a Zelda game soundtrack prodded towards a Vangelis studio jam. "Further" breaks the shackles on the space ambient genre with wispy drones that adjudicate their melodic counterpoint like a computer code - dangerously accurate in its drift between figures, yet still somehow alien. Since "Hidden Scenes" from last year, the Sundrugs moniker may have taken a more potent pill, and it translates to a riveting trip through the cosmos.
https://soundcloud.com/futuresequence
https://sundrugs.bandcamp.com/album/low
Siavash Amini - What Wind Whispered To The Trees (Future Sequence CD/DL)
Sun Drugs - Low (BLWBCK CD/DL/MC)
Through positivity comes the choice to free your inhibitions, talk sense from senselessness, and henceforth spread that positivity wider. That said, the negative is never without derision. It just comes about that in 21st Century social media context, the thinkers are dogmatic. In relation to the ambient, drone and electroacoustic online music scenes, this ever-changing perception becomes something to believe in, since Future Sequence, a site amongst others including Fluid Radio and Headphone Commute, have pioneered the online zine/label/podcast triumvirate harder and faster than any of their peers in these scenes. Personally it's down to that meeting of positivity and derision, a quality that Siavash Amini nicely surrounds on his debut album for the Future Sequence outlet.
"The Wind", titularly, contextually and literally, is not necessarily overcast in timbre as music, but does rumble like a power shower from the heavens. Natural electronics, if there ever were such a thing, place hot points on the chord base, which ruffles minor key feathers and displays a similar sustenance to colour of that of a peacock tail. "Dark Oak Woods" trails Sigur Ros and Hilmar O Hilmarsson's "Degradation" from "Angels Of The Universe OST", a lesser known Japanese import. Film is a source of inspiration for Amini, mainly Tarkovsky's "Stalker", and the line walked is equally pensive to that characterisation. Elsewhere "Aliosha And The Fire" is a musical re-enactment of the scene in 'The Mirror' flick, the track suitably burning its cello and violin melodies away like a firecracked gauze in half light.
Similarly soporific to Siavash's Arvo Part influence introduces Patryk Kawalarz' Sundrugs project. On "Low", mastered by the reputable engineer, producer, writer and performer Lawrence English, hazy night time harmonies (the release is inspired by walks around Warsaw, Poland at night, as well as love) intermingle with rhapsodic and elegaic synthesiser drift. They're rhapsodic since, like Andrew Chalk's "49 Melodies In Rhapsody Wave Serene", they last up to 5 minutes as generally dark drone compositions except for the 22 minute closer "2082". Opener "..." sounds like a Zelda game soundtrack prodded towards a Vangelis studio jam. "Further" breaks the shackles on the space ambient genre with wispy drones that adjudicate their melodic counterpoint like a computer code - dangerously accurate in its drift between figures, yet still somehow alien. Since "Hidden Scenes" from last year, the Sundrugs moniker may have taken a more potent pill, and it translates to a riveting trip through the cosmos.
https://soundcloud.com/futuresequence
https://sundrugs.bandcamp.com/album/low