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Electric Supply Station :: Constellation of Scars EP (See Blue Audio)

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Constellation of Scars provides a delicately soothing, gentle, and meandering electronic journey, with a feeling of dislocation and emotional brightness. The main musical ingredients emphasize the spacious component and astral-like energy of the pieces, sometimes punctuated by manipulated voices based on spiritual narratives.

A state of total virtual dreaminess

Electric Supply Station is an atmospheric and chilled-out abstract electronic project with a discreet, retro-ish 90s flavor. This one is well known by followers of the Spanish-based indie label Sea Blue Audio, which has built a solid reputation in the field of ambient music of ethereal beauty. It combines mainstream, melodious spaciness and transportive minimal melodies with challenging electronic ideas and emotionally vibrant soundscapes. Sea Blue Audio’s catalog shows similarities with textured ambient therapists and drone-scapers such as Neotantra, Healing Sound Propagandist, Data Oscura, Carpe Sonum, and Balmat.

Just like indie electronic music publishers Quiet Details or A Strangely Isolated Place, delicate attention is given to the visual-graphic identity of the label, suggesting infinite audio transmissions in osmosis with natural elements and flowing calmness. Among the many sound artists and relevant microtonal, downtempo/beatless ambient projects from Sea Blue Audio, we can mention the surprising f5point6, Substak, and the sculpted, semi-acoustic materials from Simon McCorry.

Constellation of Scars provides a delicately soothing, gentle, and meandering electronic journey, with a feeling of dislocation and emotional brightness. The main musical ingredients emphasize the spacious component and astral-like energy of the pieces, sometimes punctuated by manipulated voices based on spiritual narratives. The listener feels as if entering a state of total virtual dreaminess. Alluring, flowing, minimal, eclectic, and hypnotic, this ambient soundtracking comes highly recommended for fans of Pete Namlook, Tetsu Inoue, and Paul Ellis. Amateurs of the neo-Berlin school, with a playful sense of electronic pop modernism, will not be disconcerted.

Constellation of Scars is available on See Blue Audio. [Bandcamp]

 
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Graduated in cultural anthropology, Philippe Blache focuses his researches on entrepreneurship issues in luxury industry, family business as well as in creative industry (musical topics). He has published several articles in the area of economic sociology and industrial geography. Still related to academic studies he developed a growing interest in the phenomenology of shared musical experience, let him contributing to a few several symposiums and thematical books. He has worked as musical reviewer since 2004 and his expertise is well appreciated in the fields of ambient, drone, downtempo, dark wave, industrial music as well as in new musicals scenes (mainly minimalist school) and electro-acoustic researches. In 2011 he formed his own creative musical project titled Day Before Us with an inclination for darkly ritualized gothic atmospheres, sampled droning textures and ethereal poetical escapism sometimes augmented by vocal lines. The project is officially signed on various indie labels and occasionally provides sound installations in a multiplicity of contexts.