SEIKAI “IV” C51 (Mystic Timbre)

Seikai’s output has been nothinug short of in-your-face dynamic in its quest for banging out red hot takes on New Age, Dungeon Synth, & EZ Listenin’ tropes, collaging all three of their emotional aesthetics into a disorienting stew of visuals-inducing trance. 

There are scads of synthesizers & mixing-board commandings, for daze, sure, but there’s also fucking melodica leads, slide guitar-as-texture, and that blissfully cheesy/Euglossinian guitar lick that…just…somehow…fits, against all odds. All of this vacillating between baroque-stilted and jazz-jammy, edge-of-seat and couch-buried. 

Personally, listening to this, I can’t NOT imagine all the drama and down-time that might be felt, were two bounty-hunter-wizards to track one another for days in the Everglades, trapped within the walls of an ever-circling hurricane-eye. Fan-fucking-tastic!

https://seikai.bandcamp.com/

and/or

https://mystictimbre.bandcamp.com/

—Jacob An Kittenplan

SEIKAI “III: Sunrise & Sunset” C58 (Mystic Timbre)

Between bygone scaffolds of stilted, dungeon-synthy tones* & riffy arpeggiations twinkles and slithers an ancient, astral ceremony of Space Hearts harkening and sentimental dirt dwellers rapt in celebratory toil. &yet still, between these glorious forces, a slew of surprisingly fitting modern novelties punctuates the scape, rendering our sky-map at once ostentatiously Sci-Fi and deeply sentimental. 

Seikai’s “III: Sunrise & Sunset” is an all enveloping quest of mystical proportions and sound potions that’s pretty much guaranteed to transport the listener far, far away from their internal state, obscuring Earthly mood, speed, and time, in bewildering combinations.

Austin, TX’s MYSTIC TIMBRE imprint has one hell of a good thing going here, folx. Get in on this!

https://mystictimbre.bandcamp.com/

and/or

https://seikai.bandcamp.com/album/iii-sunrise-sunset

—Jacob An Kittenplan

There is no time like the preset, right?