Gobelin Stitches only manages to reinforce Nebulo’s strength and capacity to rediscover raw musical ideas and stitch them into hundreds of unique spatial coordinates.
Venturing into incredibly broken sonic regions
On Gobelin Stitches, ten tracks by the nebulous electronic experimentalist Nebulo (also known as Thomas Pujols—located in the south of France) venture into incredibly broken sonic regions opening with the blistered funk and slippery braindance groove of the title track. Nebulo is in free fall where various shapes of noise, glitch, synth, and ambient-electronic entanglement glide in all directions as the album seamlessly drifts into irregular structures emphasizing saturated bass (see “Zig Zag”).
While “Braid” feels like an elseq 1–5 extract, consider the sweet rumbling undertone and sound design structure of “Cruz” and “Hungarian,” or the abstract creative force of “Rosette Chain” and its vintage, almost Subotnick-like charge. On Gobelin Stitches, a plethora of unkempt IDM subgenres converge and diverge into ambiguous, non-standard, and hazy forms—much to the artists’ production credits going back to 2006. Gobelin Stitches only manages to reinforce Nebulo’s strength and capacity to rediscover raw musical ideas and stitch them into hundreds of unique spatial coordinates.
Gobelin Stitch is made up of horizontal rows of slanted stitches spanning over two canvas threads horizontally and vertically.
Gobelin Stitches is available on Evel. [Bandcamp]