Jazz and neo-classically informed piano and Rhodes-like timbres take center stage across the nine pieces gathered together for this debut full length effort. Interlaced ambient textures and rhythmic melodies round out the sound palette.
Emotional depths mined
Amidst the deluge of music that gets released every year, some things always slip past, and you only catch up to them a little bit later. Now that the festivities of the saturnalia that is the years end is over, I’m starting a new year in a tranquil and reflective mode, with Aoris.
Aoris is a Greek composer who recorded this effort in the ancient city of Athens. The sound waves reflect timeless philosophy and are just the thing for reflecting on the shared connections we have as humans “In Existence” here together. What is our place in the cosmos? How do we move through time? How do moments of pain and joy leave lasting impressions in our memory and shape who we are? These are the questions the music seems to ask, but the answers are left hanging in the air after the vibrations of the last piano note drift through the speakers.
Jazz and neo-classically informed piano and Rhodes-like timbres take center stage across the nine pieces gathered together for this debut full length effort. Interlaced ambient textures and rhythmic melodies round out the sound palette.
Music fans who remember the Californian/Mexican group Kobol will find this to be in a similar musical center of jazz and electronica. Equally, Aoris would be at home on Manfred Eicher’s legendary ECM label where atmospheric jazz and neo-classical that crosses into the realms of the meditative and mesmerizing reigns supreme. If that kind of stuff is your slowed down speed, then slow down with this record and take a moment to gaze into the mirror of life and examine things for a moment. What has brought meaning? What has touched a nerve? What passions drive us forward? What mistakes or mishaps have happened that turn on the light of introspection and give us a pause and a chance to change?
The emotional depths mined on this record create an atmosphere for exploring these inner life and subjective moods.
In Existence is available on Same Difference Music. [Bandcamp]
