Meticulously prepared, conceived and performed, this collection of live recording sessions is warmly recommended to anyone interested in vigorously emotional, delicately evocative and cinematic soundscaping excursions.
Pioneering instigator, composer and sound designer in the field of multifaceted spacey-ambient electronica, Ian Boddy has newly published a live release, mixed and mastered at his DiN laboratory. The recorded materials are taken from two major performances given in Liverpool and Philadelphia in late 2012. The dense and vibrant electronic orchestration explores the territories of deep-cosmic music with a corpus of moving synthesized melodious lines and mesmerizing pulsating hypno-ish rhythmical grooves. Pretty inspiring, semi-improvised, perfectly controlled, floating, imaginary textural and with a handful of challenging moments, Liverdelphia represents what the great tradition of Cosmic electronic art movement has to offer at the pick of its creative strength and stylistic venture. The dreamlike soundscapes and their subtle, nicely mesmeric, blissed-out moments admit comparison with the now classical analog synthesized textures and epic-ambient agitated ominous electronic experimentations of the 70s Berlin school as well as masterful adventurous explorations from Rudiger Lorenz, Mark Shreeve and Ian himself (at the beginning of their respective musical trajectory, back in the early and mid 80s). Liverdelphia contains all the idiosyncratic qualities and distinctively innovative facets of tranced-out space age electronica, mainly remarkable for its constant mysterious melodies which are flowing on a vast and wondrous sonic sound tapestry. Meticulously prepared, conceived and performed, this collection of live recording sessions is warmly recommended to anyone interested in vigorously emotional, delicately evocative and cinematic soundscaping excursions. Liverdelphia can legitimately be regarded as a fine introductive album for new comers in the universe of Ian Boddy’s unique world of sounds and harmonious tonal colors.
Liverdelphia is available on DiN.
