Miami’s Richard Vergez does the opposite of what you’d expect from Miami,
where you’re normally accosted by all the Dolphins teal and … Vice pink and dusk clubbing and coeds
and cheap cocktails – perpetual spring break, right? Well, you fools – strap in,
because you’re in for the surprise of your lives! Or maybe not, depending on
what you expect from something called “Night Foundation,” and also whether or
not you even know about the Miami
connection, which I did not until I looked it up. Let There Be Light is, in fact, a tour de force of ambient
synthesizer explorations, kosmische introspections that illuminate what it
means to be you and how you connect to the wider universe. It’s not, decidedly,
a place where brain cells go to die.
According to Vergez’s Soundcloud page (no
Bandcamp?!), what you’ll mostly hear in his work is Arp Odyssey, synth strings,
and tape loops, and that’s what Let There
Be Light mainly offers. Every motion, every movement is deliberate,
languidly paced, hints of melody and rhythm peeking through the gloom. Because
that’s what we’re doing here – we’re moving from darkness to light, from night
to day, from inner to outer, but just barely. Night Foundation holds the noir
atmosphere throughout, even when the final strains threaten dawn. There’s
probably something there to latch on to, to feel good about, but not until
those first tentative steps are taken out from behind the nocturnal curtain.
Even if in the end we end up retreating back to the darkness, we’re at least
trying something new here, right? And that’s always a good thing – no pink or
teal or whatever to mess with the melancholy.
https://soundcloud.com/night_foundation
https://flop-house.bandcamp.com/
--Ryan
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