Bubbly and deep, slow moving clouds of moving illusion. The long slow drones with beats sound like a primitive machine just running along, doing its cyclic routines as the surrounding scenery strangely flickers into the background.
Microscopic noises sound like a gigantic force
Biome is dark and ominous, I love it. Bubbly and deep, slow moving clouds of moving illusion. The long slow drones with beats sound like a primitive machine just running along, doing its cyclic routines as the surrounding scenery strangely flickers into the background.
Biome is about life, starting with the most microscopic and primitive. Strange noises, from such a tiny world, or maybe nothing is tiny, it certainly sounds gigantic. Those little microscopic guys live at such a different pace, from their point of view, we must look like mountains just standing forever, while they speed along, eating each other.
Drums pulse and thump on and on forever, enchanting the constant listener, with sparkly maneuvers in the air. They just slowly float away in the rhythm, followed by the next gathering patterns. I am obsessed with the machine. The music is huge. I think of the scale differences, when microscopic noises sound like a gigantic force, the feeling is definitely scary but fascinating. Instead of hiding in safety, the tribe gathers and listens to the machine, I hear some kind of sound machines that just run on and on at a steady state. Time drops away. “Algae Bloom” (8:58) The heart beats on and on, hand drums link to my heartbeat. The first track has a powerful bass.
Behold the robots that just keep on marching. Sometimes they float away and the machine stops. These hypnotic beats are not new, but then, new is a tricky word, new to me? I have never heard it quite like this before. I can imagine that the ancients, when not trying to find food, did this instead of spending all the time on the phone. I think I should just give myself over to the huge sound, I just float as it takes us into a fully absorbing experience. It dominates your sense of sound perception, listening to this psybient world.
“Trapped in Amber” (9:48) fades in, synth glowing, then a series of new sounds weave into the situation, and now the machine is running along, hand drums and drones with odd sounding things visiting, “Protozoa” (9:45). The march commands all and it feels good to just ride along. I am one with the Protozoans. The feeling for me is emerging from chaos into a well running rhythm pattern that just bulldozes over everything. Maybe this music could be the antidote to the worldly hustle, or is it perhaps the zombie call? I think really the music is just a strong presence that we can sift through. It takes over and we ride.
Deep within the forest floor there is a nourishing quiet ::
“Fern Cluster” (8:10) is where the lost tribes abide. Deep within the forest floor there is a nourishing quiet, somehow the sound is wet and squirms with life. Always the drums sound and drive, buzzing and humming things come and go. Now there is a jam that grabs onto your floating and soaring mind, if you go with it you can evade gravity for a time. I see that the lost tribes are always there. Who is lost? The explorer or the shaman? “Luminous and Tangled” (9:13) wet forms take shape in the soup. I think I hear a water drum, and the strangely colored worms are growing wings. Now something is weaving, using bioluminescence in the shape of tentacles. I think, “everybody can dance in your sleep!“
Sometimes the melodies echo and form new patterns, old flutes echo and reflect as they hang in the air. I hear ancient sounds in new kinds of songs. Maybe the old traditions were to make the music all night long, these tracks are minutes, not hours or days. what if they could go on forever? “Mycelium Dreams” (13:50). Try not to imagine calming down as you become one with the loam, a vast underground system of tubes and moving fluids. Mycelium are the hidden roots of mushrooms and there may be no sign of these beings for extended periods of time until the temperature and other conditions are just right and then the mushrooms pop up quickly. The dub narcotic bass on this track is awesome, loosening metallic screws for miles around.
Frore is the ambient music project of Paul Casper, a musician hailing from southeastern Virginia, in the USA. Casper has a unique approach to ambient music, always seeking to fuse what he calls “primitive sounds” with current technology, his music makes him realize how nothing much changes with people, that music is a fundamental human impulse and an attempt to make sounds to “fight off the loneliness.”
Biome is available on Spotted Peccary. [Bandcamp | Site]
