Essential and clearly recommended for adepts of moody, poignant, luminous and cinematic ambient sculptures.
Deru (aka Benjamin Wynn) is an abstract-minimal ambient music project based in Los Angeles. A notorious figure in the world of experimental-electronic music as well as skilled researcher in technologies, sound engineering and explorations in formalized / computerized concept music, Benjamin Wynn delivers a ravishing and deeply introspective suite of “microsonic ambient poems” around the thematic of memories and personal dream-times on 1979.
The beautifully animated timbres, flexible sound textures, tonal colors serve a significant, constructive and highly emotional musical discourse engraved upon the fundamental notions of affective memory, trace, absence and secrecy. Under the philosophical angle the intuitive then logical representations of memory have been conceptually described in the works of Jean Piaget, Frances Yates, Henri Bergson. This new Deru work can be appreciated as a sonorous and sensorial translation of those intellectual approaches, capable to invite the listener in a serene and intense meditation on himself, on the flowing aspect of time and on retrospective exercises.
This album is conceived as a collaborative inter-media project for a fertile artistic dialogue between Benjamin Wynn for sound sculptures and Anthony Ciannamea for the video art production. Each composition is harmoniously accompanied by expressive and illustrative cinematic sketches. About the music itself and its compositional elaboration we assist to a tremendous and fascinating multidimensional drone ambient painting where moving acoustic elements meet electronic schemas. The opening theme is a sweetly melancholic and mysterious track, extraordinary immersive and intimate with a minimalist contemporary classical touch. “Let the Silence Float” is a powerful organic ambient soundscape followed by the sensational and more electronic inflected “Addictive yearning,” melodious and blissed-out. The following track follows the same trajectory with a wonderfully absorbing interaction between micro-sound manipulations, sustained drones and soundtracky melodious motifs.
Essential and clearly recommended for adepts of moody, poignant, luminous and cinematic ambient sculptures.
1979 is available on Friends Of Friends. [Bandcamp]
