““As long as music is loud enough, we won’t hear the world falling apart”– (‘Jubilee’ Derek Jarman)
January is typically a ‘quiet’ month in terms of gigs but very rich in its sonic output in terms of album releases. As a new decade has started and the world has not ended (sic) our favourite releases from this month are tracing a sonic path that took us from lyrical gothic to blues and from heavy psychedelia and industrial syncopation to dreamy and eerie soundscapes.
1. Fall Into The Maze/ 2. First Piece of The Puzzle/ 3. Origamia/ 4. Last Day of Happiness/ 5.??Enigma??/ 6. Time to March The Riddle/7. Endless Passage/ 8. Symmetric Lines/ 9. Hypnotic Equation/ 10. Holy Haunted Box/ 11. Second Piece of The Puzzle/ 12.Before The Sun Will Rise/13. The Ballet Of Abstract Motion/ 14. Third Piece Of The Puzzle/ 15. Parasite/Paradox/ Paralysis/ 16.Room 586
Ant-Zen, April 2014
If you ever envisaged taking a walk inside an animated version of any of M.C. Escher’s worlds, then ‘Geometrical Keys’ would be an ideal musical accompaniment. This is the dark, mystifying, atmospheric, spiritual, inspiring debut album by Hologram_ aka Martin Delisle. It is an album which heightens our emotions in all the ways that good IDM (or Intelligent Dance Music) is supposed to do, so expect to be motivated to dance, explore your emotions and thoughts and to drift away mentally into imaginary places and times.
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