Showing no particular shape, the album cascades through the mind’s ear as brisk ambient bits flutter and fade away.
Tangible tones submerged in mysterious textures
Utilizing Waldorf synthesizers and collaborating with various musicians (Ivan Kapec on baritone guitar and field recordings, Slacknote on bass guitar, and Andrej Jakus on trumpet), you might expect Horse Tail to traverse more organic and instrumental avenues—and while you’d be right, Sunao Inami continues to merge just enough exp-electronic tentacles, musique concrète, and a mixture of ethereal glitches with subdued, dark ambient motifs. It’s a musical mélange that transforms and transmits surreal dynamics that simply cannot be defined or pigeonholed.
As Sunao Inami explores the infinite depths of his computer-generated instrumentation, he also manages to create tranquilized sound worlds we’ve yet to inhabit. Abstract and organized, turbulent and fluid, Horse Tail could be considered the Kobe-based musicians’ magnum opus—offering a wide cross-section through crumpled atmospheric notes and buried conceptual rhythms that form and deform. Showing no particular shape, the album cascades through the mind’s ear as brisk ambient bits flutter and fade away.
A riveting collection of tangible tones submerged in mysterious textures. Deconstructing electronic music with an organic flow, Horse Tail simply evades genre leanings.
Horse Tail is available on electr-ohm. [Apple | YouTube | Spotify]
