The entire album has a cool, lush beauty to it, rewarding the listener at any time of day or night with a sonic excursion to other lands.
Continuous, sensitively interwoven surfaces
Tides, Joachim Spieth’s second long-player, is 8 tracks built from continuous, sensitively interwoven surfaces which creates swooping curving tension between all encompassing, somber and ecstatic moments. Layered in atmospheres which further create this dense, engaging, diaphanous moody and flowing collection. There are really no sharp edges herein, all of them having been worn off by the careful curation of the tracks, leaving one with the feeling of a hypnagogic state close to waking but still governed by dream logic. “Cahaya Bulan” puts one in mind of a wintry beach at dusk, the setting sun fraying the edges of the encroaching cold of night. “P 680” swaddles the listener in clouds of warm, billowing pads like one imagines it feels to fly unencumbered through clouds. “Ultradian” is a darker affair with minimal percussion ushering in a sense of slight unease as the track unfolds into smooth cold tones. “Antipodal” bursts with a low-frequency swell of sounds like waves that take their time to crest and fall into the next while low rumbles anchor the soundscape. The entire album has a cool, lush beauty to it, rewarding the listener at any time of day or night with a sonic excursion to other lands.
Tides is available on Affin. [Bandcamp]
