Experimental Electronic Music
Morning Glories is strongest when it allows this material to breathe without forcing it towards the sublime. bvdub knows his own vocabulary extremely well and at times exposes it to its limits. The more accessible melodic openings give the album a different kind of light, occasionally close to a pop sensibility, always absorbed within durations and structures that belong to another logic.
Replicant Memories unfolds as a single, immersive chamber where time thickens into feeling—four long, patient movements of drones, voices, and disciplined rhythm that reward surrender, recalling the era when electronic music asked you not to skim experience, but to dwell inside it.
Unbreakable is a passage, a sweet wound, an epiphany that digs and mends. An act of love to be lived in silence, eyes closed, in the darkness of a room or of the soul.
The emotional resonances of this album would seem to be marred by writing a review that cannot, by its very nature, encompass the fluxing changes of musical flow and depth captured on 13. Just listen to it and be swept into a world that’s always changing, fates of people and nations rising and falling. This is something we should be unconcerned about, and instead offer our trust, care and love back to the world.
The album title of this duet of paired longform tracks from Inquiri and bvdub is perfect for the Past Inside the Present label. What is our past, but a life in setting suns? And what is our present but the hope for more sunsets and sunrises.
Whether it’s the soulful nature of his vocal samples, or the lush and downtempo beats that give it all a skeleton to cascade off of, or the exquisite synthetic textures throughout, Bvdub has found his vein of gold and continues to mine it without relent.
You can hear a lot of pure ambience on See You Someday, however, most of the time it is infused with ambient pop aesthetics, some big string arrangements, and straight up psychedelia.
Like Blade Runner directed by Ridley Scott, bvdub’s Leaving alludes to the end of a person’s life. The music uses a dark-ambient approach to bring the listener to this point in the present.
A big emotive expression, experiencing and surviving the process of painfully breaking free of the past by extreme means, somehow always staying calm and quietly passionate.
While the music is supposed to be ambient, it is also very rich in tone and, consequently, sonically very much present in one’s space.
The audio arts are a way of interpreting as well as creating many mysteries, beauty permits more exposure, honest expression can include healing and evoking difficult depths.
