Noryani | Northeast 117

We take a sequential trip as soon as the first piece begins. As far as famous synthesizer artists are concerned, there come BIOnighT and Paul Nagle to one’s mind – here it is, a lonely snowy park, somewhere far away car- and neon-lights are shimmering, and this very place lives a life of its own, caught with a hidden synthesizer-oriented camera... The second piece is quite rapturous, optimistic; such mid-tempo pace and „sunrainy“ melodies are normally associated with musicians collaborating with the Neu Harmony label. The shape of the third piece is marked by silence and pauses as well as by lurking sequential passages and some catchy tunes ? la Vangelis (let’s pay attention to the arrangements – doesn’t it all sound a bit as if it was „Blade Runner“’s twin?... The fourth track is based on penetrative dark beams, whereby a kettle full of black ambient mass is boiling. This would be an ingenious intro, and behold, it turns out to be a whole piece of music! Apart from that, there appear some nice bassline sighs in the background – until now it’s my favourite piece of the set. Track five... Long shadowy sounds flow through space a bit as if it was some early Vangelis record, and the main melody is here the jewel in the crown – a gramophone recollection, a leaf found near the puddle in the park whose specific form reminds us of something nice, warm and long forgotten. Such is the atmosphere of this piece of music, yet another one among my favourites. The sweepy percussion line could also be a work by Spyra, another master of nostalgia with a bit of humor to it. The sixth piece illustrates the question „What is time?“ quite well. There they go, sombre and melancholic chords, accompanied by some murky background-sounds and an elegant trance percussion line. This one is a very nice melange of elpop and chilly electro in a navyblue-silvery organic mood. Track seven brings some windy keyboards, while an electronic sandstorm is approaching. An interesting way to serve electronic romanticism and a good deal of suspense. In the eighth composition a catchy sequential „riff“ appears, reminding me of the atmosphere of non-hit tracks from Peter Gabriel’s „So“. Here we have nice „singing“ drum patterns and a pleasant recurring melody. The sequencer joins in and, after two minutes from the start, a trance beat-line. Now there is pretty much going on at all levels, static keyboard soundscapes get mixed nicely with percussive dynamics. At dawn we take a look through the window and see all the buildings and cars as if in a deformed negative photo – as if it were the same as usual, and still, what an enthralling surprise! Track nine is the final word. Soft guitar sounds as if from some other dimension, wax dawn mantra; through the window we catch a glimpse of the snowy park from the opening track. The street lamps fade out, night turns into bent cold dawn, we cannot be sure if it is a black garbage bag or a raven preparing to fly away, there, behind the bench, in this gloomy aura... Such a beautiful piece of music to wake up with, an introduction to yet another snowy, frosty day. A track I could compare this one with is Thomas P. Heckmann’s fantastic „Astral Chains“. Strongly recommended.