Feedback loops emergent from tape recorder interactions served as a guiding principle, indeterminacy notwithstanding, fostering infusion of a certain fragile sensibility.
Glistening melodic future daze
Two years on from his last solo album, Paris-based electronicist thme [pron. ‘theme’] adds Anti Atlas, a new release on boutique Brittany label, laaps, to an already nicely plumped up discography.
Théo Martin has previous releases on Lontano Series (Silesco), Seil (Red roses are red now, Nocens) and Vaknar (A Grasp of Wonder), plus team-ups with spirit-kin Lamasz and Agyt, though the artist known as thme was first sighted in an early lockdown igloo-‘view (Elsewhereness revisited #19) of that’s what it will be like (whitelabrecs, 2020), citing its ‘virtual chronostasis captured by the Parisian, who saw his studio as a space for temporal arrest in an intense period;’ accolades too for its ‘bliss-scapes with swathes of drone, echo, crackle, and voice translated into glistening melodic future daze,’ and ‘no twee or fluffy stuff, rather an undercurrent of all not quite rosy in the garden.’ All the above could apply to Anti Atlas, as would comments on the use of magnetic tape, clearly still central to the thme aesthetic; feedback loops emergent from tape recorder interactions served as a guiding principle, indeterminacy notwithstanding, fostering infusion of a certain fragile sensibility.
Accompanying blurb has the music associated with ‘longing, heartfelt aspirations, and the quiet hope that keeps us reaching for what lies ahead.’ A suitably poetic emotional serving suggestion. Essential listening for the tape-hiss happy!
Anti Atlas is available on laaps [Bandcamp]
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