Ignatius’ sound is simply enveloping and mind bending—reaching the furthest edges of modular/industrial experimentation without losing his audience along the way.
Ignatius finds plenty of room to stretch exploratory boundaries
We’ve always had a sweet spot for Ignatius’ modular sound dynamics (see here)—Disencumber gathers tracks that didn’t “fit” on other releases and culled from dusty hard drives. A mixture of new and old(er) sonic creations is the result. Whether they’re newly minted or rediscovered, the talented Pacific Northwest musician and Buried In Time label operator continues on a quest to meander through melodiously dark electronic valleys.
Eight tracks averaging over 5 minutes apiece, Ignatius finds plenty of room to stretch exploratory boundaries. Bouncing around bumpier bits like the Autechrean glitch infested rhythms of “Eloq_Assm,” to more industrial acrobatics and low-end acid scribbling of “donut_bass,” Disencumber is a baffling collection ripping through blistered sound spaces. The darker thread and metallic drone of “everytime” breaks the album down—a distilled modular environment that echoes across the landscape. And just when you thought there couldn’t possibly be any more fuel left in Ignatius’ noise machines, “insensibility” is perhaps the highlight of the lot where Proem-like micro-industrial layers are thread around rhythmic bass shuffling from the outer edges of our galaxy. Closing with a compilation track from 2005, “*Death to Amsterdam’s Roxy” is all manner of fidgeting micro fibers, broken beats, and sandblasted glitch funk mayhem, that we’re left craving more of.
For fans of early releases by Architect, Deru, Lusine ICL, Proem, RD, and Richard Devine, Ignatius’ sound is simply enveloping and mind bending—reaching the furthest edges of modular/industrial experimentation without losing his audience along the way.
Disencumber is available on Buried In Time. [Bandcamp]
