A frosty sea of cavernous drones meet chilled-out airy melodies. Fans of rumbling ambient sequences, intimate music and crumbling cinematic atmospheres won’t be disappointed. Recommended for fans of Hotel Neon, Deathprod, Kirill Nikolai, Peter Michael Hamel.
LA-based sound designer and electronic music project Deru is back with a new effort, four years after the remarkable and well-noted minimal drifting ambient release 1979. Printed in high-class vinyl format, this new album challenges territories of kinetic electronics, buzzing dronescapes and electro-acoustic experimentations. If 1979 struck my attention with its nightly enigmatic introspective mood, beautiful in its all simplicity Torn In Two flows on more cinematic, puzzling orchestral then electronic vibes. We can also detect clear presences of compositional principles taken from the micro-tonal classical music school with the use of processed motives, patterns and melodious repetitive phrases. This album demonstrates a refined inclination to mix menacing, thrilling sonic waves with more peacefully acoustic vibes. A frosty sea of cavernous drones meet chilled-out airy melodies. The melancholic course of 1979 is still here but the reflective sound voyage is sharpened with a new load of emotions and textures, somber, more intricate, tormented and multidimensional than previously exhibited. My favorite tracks are the majestic and mysteriously enveloping “The Overview Effect” and the threatening “Torn in Two.” Fans of rumbling ambient sequences, intimate music and crumbling cinematic atmospheres won’t be disappointed. Recommended for fans of Hotel Neon, Deathprod, Kirill Nikolai, Peter Michael Hamel.
Torn In Two is available on Friends Of Friends / 79Ancestors. Available here.
