A delightful album where the electric guitar is in intimate conversation with a network of textured synthesized ambiences.
This Colour Division is the fifth chapter of a durable and fruitful collaboration between two majors architects of sculptural-modelized ambient experimentalism. Ian Boddy whose artistic sensibility covers a large range of synthesized textures and electronic explorations cultivates in this collaborative album a closer view on a flowing synthscaping tempo, pleasant and accessible. His keys embraces the path of sinuous synth waves, occasionally enriched and punctuated by pulsating sound structures, rhythmical oscillations and kinetic-electronic moves. His traditional orchestrated synthesized parts are associated to Markus Reuter’s structural guitar playing sophistication to provide a body of music of compelling refinement, full of nuances and originality. Markus Reuter’s impressive instrumental ability perfectly interacts with Ian Boddy’s majestic and intensively absorbing world of sounds. With an achieved sense of “progressivism,” those subtly moving atmospheres express the ideal of continual flux and “enveloping” contemplative aesthetic universe.
In a sumptuous track such as “Reveal” the guitar glissando sustained by deep bass lines and the serene synthesizers introduces the listener into a rare spiritual grandor where the frontiers of time appears to be dissolved in order to create a beatific state in stillness. Mysterious and enthralling meditative tracks such as “Crescent” and “Slowfall” alternate with more punchy-groovier modern electronic compositions. “Borderlands,” “Fulcrum” and “Beacon” bring to the fore technical electric guitar leads, dissonant Fripp-esque melodies and dynamic electronic sonorities.
A delightful album where the electric guitar is in intimate conversation with a network of textured synthesized ambiences. An abstract sound painting that will ravish fans of Fripp / Eno collaborative works, Günter Schickert, Richard Wahnfried (Tonwelle) and early Berlin school of electronics. A recommended introduction to Boddy / Reuter’s rigorous composing philosophy and to their mutual researches in sonic electronic realms.
Colour Division is available on DiN.
