Imagined on late night walks where the cosmos poured into the subconscious via sonic waveforms, musical elements fade into and out of focus, electrical devices bend and deform, and what’s left is a pleasant array of untouchable things.
Music AutOmatik (aka Fabien G. Brillant) returns after two years and follows up Message From Mars (Ominum, 2011) with Untouchable Things, a quirky pulse of electronic detail. Taking various experimental tangents intermixed with actual instrumentation—focused branches of clicks’n cuts and tensioned hip-hop flow into bubbling atmospherics. “Cosmograph” gravitates swirling ambient flurries as the coherently erratic “Dear Richard” alters its frequency tones and snappy mood. Moving parts shift back and forth in semi-danceable form as noted on “Elusive”—which seems to echo Plaid’s past—as the dubbed techno of “Akume” evolves out of thin air. The title track is a delicate beauty; aquatic basslines flicker into dubspace as it reduces itself to a quaint heartbeat lullaby. “Clock Orange”—perhaps an indirect homage to the late Stanley Kubrick—trickles away at curious subliminal audio shuffling and looming particulate matter as it tapers in a brisk four minutes. Imagined on late night walks where the cosmos poured into the subconscious via sonic waveforms, musical elements fade into and out of focus, electrical devices bend and deform, and what’s left is a pleasant array of untouchable things.
Untouchable Things is available on Ominum. [Release page]
