Experimental Electronic Music
A slow moving, contemplative, dark and sustained, thrilling and colossal poetical/musical drama of overwhelming expressive intensity with hints of hidden cathedral organs holding each listener up to the sky above their wearisome moments and extending the illustrative emotional mood.
The tracks assembled for this annual aural treasury are all highly crafted ambient electronic instrumentals, each illuminated and uplifting, with an evident deep moral seriousness and an artistry which expresses a very conscious and deliberate assumption of spiritual ecstasy in which our mind is suspended.
Across the album, Toh Imago finds inventive ways of opening a dialogue between nature and machine, both literally and metaphorically, creating a soundscape that both feels like and was created by the natural world…
The album flows in a crisp loop influenced and foggy slow motion ritual to repeat, for me it slows things down in an interesting way.
Finding a portal to the hollow interior of the earth, never seen before, through changing textures and forms, from deep extended foggy drones to popping electronic beats that hide and barely emerge in places.
This album is also some sort of a tribute to everything non-linear and unpredictable in the audio world, such as analogue circuits, tubes, spring reverb, tapes, all those things that made those pieces sound as they sound.
At times there is a frantic beat to guide us off-world into vast, alien territories, and at other times there is a soaring glitchy drone melting into the background, with a melodic steampunk robot that comes and goes, stalking us through the entire voyage.
This is theater, this is a type of dark story told by sound and I want to go back. There is something behind me now.
