Nobuka :: Monologue Intérieur (Audiobulb)

Monologue Intérieur takes a more intimate, solitary path—rooted in daily life, field recordings, and almost post-Cage-like sparse and fragile piano sequences.

A more intimate, solitary path

The remarkably active Audiobulb Records, specializing in deep home listening experiences, crossing the frontiers of adventurous ambient music and atmospheric dreamscapes is back with several new monthly releases, including Monologue Intérieur by sound art project Nobuka (alias Michel van Collenburg). This project has released a handful of albums since 2020, celebrating modern classical music with an experimental electronic edge. While an album like Reiko (2021) featured a variety of string textures that enveloped emotional moments with rich melodic lines, orchestral jazzy moods, and occasional dissonant accents, this new album takes a more intimate, solitary path—rooted in daily life, field recordings, and almost post-Cage-like sparse and fragile piano sequences.

The electronic sounding facet of Monologue Intérieur is more discreet and comes up to emphasize the manipulated acoustic sounding facet of detached textures. Droning chordal motifs are also flowing in the mix, surrounded by a gently washing corpus of verdant found-sounds and surrounding micro-noises from ordinary existence. Crafted from solemn, partly wounded, fractured, and sentient, spontaneous semi-classical, electronic-based meditative studies that emotionally delve into the memory of a restored past era. Recommended for fans of Patrick Shiroishi, Phillip Golub, Jürg Frey, Eden Lonsdale, Pierce Warnecke, and James Weeks’ piano pieces.

Monologue Intérieur is available on Audiobulb. [Bandcamp]