A continuous pleasant listening, a charming and extremely diversified effort in the spectrum of twilight-textured electro jazz minimalism.
Constant support in the promotion of uncompromised and challenging electronic music from today, Nonine digital records are back with a wonderfully “mysterious” new release titled Quincunx (by the artist Mycroft). The conceptual background admits a serious relationship with the tense, socio-fictional and unrevealed atmospheres which prevail in detective stories, in particular from Conan Doyle’s novels. The release info stresses the fact that the major influence behind the birth of this release is the remarkable enigmatic gallery of portraits and characters offered by Sherlock Holmes’ tasty and intriguing detective stories. Consequently the musical identity of this release is largely turned to musical metaphors and sound figures connected to mystery, to the depth of night, to the complex alchemy of thoughts and obvious lessons given by some good detective stories about all sorts of things: on man and his doubts, his dilemmas and enigmas.
The musical score can be appreciated as a virtual soundtrack to accompany those kind of readings, it could be perfectly associated to some film-noirs if this genre would admit contemporary forms related to our modern society. The textural sound forms are sustained by a vast collection of nocturne-soothing jazzy sequences, highly emotional and classicized. The whole acoustic-natural jazzy mix is punctuated by efficient and discernible electronic melodies, rhythms and timbres. Some tracks—such as “Education Apparatus”—contain a great dose of tripped-out jazzy atmospheric grooves. “Bitten By the Fox” admits really nice 60s retro-ish B grade soundtracky feelings. A continuous pleasant listening, a charming and extremely diversified effort in the spectrum of twilight-textured electro jazz minimalism.
Quincunx is available on nonine. [Release page]
