With this release, Tokyo’s Rhucle joins Constellation Tatsu’s ever
expanding, stalwart cat-a-logue of Japanese sound-sculptors who carefully work
in meditative drone/ambience, each artist as unique and personal as the human
mood-shift, itself.
Temperament-wise, Rhucle dominates the bright and shiney…the most
blissful spots of our brains. Straight outta the SOTL* playbook, this ¾ hour
exercise in glacially drifting swells of synth/guitar-drenched-reverb** is
mixed with such a neon shimmer*** that it’s nearly impossible not to visualize aurora
borealis’s ghostly fogs all just intermingling in some galactic, blacklight
slowmotion, with at least four distinct layers of hyper-lit accumulations
weaving, vertically, to & fro. It’s all so cartoon-esque; a portrayal of
what it’s like to frolic amidst Oxygen & Nitrogen-based molecules as solar
winds stampede through you, gracefully highlighting their dominance of Earth’s
upper atmosphere…
but Rhucle is born of man, & must tether such celestial delights
with sonically-buried reminders of terrestrial field recordings, most notably
those of our most important liquid life-source (in contact with energetic arousal)
as well as the parched vocal chords of many non-human sample of the animal
kingdom.
In short, good for to study to, good for to study, good for to zone out
to, good for to get guided by, good. Good.
*Stars of the fucking Lid
**that’s right
***really, nearly blindingly metallic in its commanding edginess
and/or
-- Jacob
An Kittenplan
Posts
