The result is captivating, thoughtful, emotive, strange, and navigating through cerebral sound waves, smooth atmospherics, moody-esque sculpted improvisations to radical rhythmically-orientated and almost glitch-like experimentations.
Navigating through cerebral sound waves
Mo H. Zareei (aka mHz) is an Iranian sound artist based in Wellington, New Zealand, demonstrating a great ability and compositional skills for innovative, sonic and immersive (post) ambient tones. mHz started working with the sound art editions LINE notably for the quite superb hypno-ish, multilayered and ecstatically droning Same Room, Another Day. Material Prosody is published by the legendary Room40 imprint (owned by Lawrence English) and whose production embraces all the components of modern-day electronic music; from shimmering-soothing ambient to intricate experimentations, abstract minimalism and modular drones and semi-organic soundscapes. Countless classics have been produced by this label over the years.
This new album appears to be a collaborative work under the direction of Mo H. Zareei, re-using, re-considering the Material Sequencer (8-step electromechanical sequencer) under the light of newly designed sonic palettes and under various approaches, incorporating materialistic as well as conceptual elements. Notorious sound artists and electronic projects such as Loscil, Matmos, Zimoun, Alba Triana, and Nicolas Bernier collaborate with new research work on this fundamental-archaic electronic device. Each artist involved develops a spontaneous inspiration, admitting a sense of depth, motion, and complex sound designs.
The result is captivating, thoughtful, emotive, strange, and navigating through cerebral sound waves, smooth atmospherics, moody-esque sculpted improvisations to radical rhythmically-orientated and almost glitch-like experimentations. A recommended musique concrète pulse music which meets semi-ambient musical moments inside a box of archaic sequential circuits.
Material Prosody is available on Room40. [Bandcamp]
