Based on a 20-minute field recording and Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector's 1973 experimental novel, 'Água Viva' is a poetic, evocative fusion of environmental sounds, modular moans and faded instrumental shimmers.
Sequences is Antwerp-based sound artist and Audio. Visuals. Atmosphere boss Niels Geybels, and he's built this latest album around Lispector's book, naming each track after her text and using its contents to inform the direction of the sounds. Geybels' starting point was a lengthy field recording he dubbed while traveling, and elements of this soundscape appear and disappear throughout, met by subtle zither and guitar sounds and gentle synth drones. Waves lap the edges of each track, and wind hits the microphone, but its Geybels' melancholy harmonies, that seem to fall in-and-out of tune that make 'Água Viva' so beguiling. It's never overly sentimental, at times veering towards classic dark ambience, but there's a sense of movement throughout as Geybels introduces underwater gong tones and noisy, drowned washes.
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Based on a 20-minute field recording and Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector's 1973 experimental novel, 'Água Viva' is a poetic, evocative fusion of environmental sounds, modular moans and faded instrumental shimmers.
Sequences is Antwerp-based sound artist and Audio. Visuals. Atmosphere boss Niels Geybels, and he's built this latest album around Lispector's book, naming each track after her text and using its contents to inform the direction of the sounds. Geybels' starting point was a lengthy field recording he dubbed while traveling, and elements of this soundscape appear and disappear throughout, met by subtle zither and guitar sounds and gentle synth drones. Waves lap the edges of each track, and wind hits the microphone, but its Geybels' melancholy harmonies, that seem to fall in-and-out of tune that make 'Água Viva' so beguiling. It's never overly sentimental, at times veering towards classic dark ambience, but there's a sense of movement throughout as Geybels introduces underwater gong tones and noisy, drowned washes.
Based on a 20-minute field recording and Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector's 1973 experimental novel, 'Água Viva' is a poetic, evocative fusion of environmental sounds, modular moans and faded instrumental shimmers.
Sequences is Antwerp-based sound artist and Audio. Visuals. Atmosphere boss Niels Geybels, and he's built this latest album around Lispector's book, naming each track after her text and using its contents to inform the direction of the sounds. Geybels' starting point was a lengthy field recording he dubbed while traveling, and elements of this soundscape appear and disappear throughout, met by subtle zither and guitar sounds and gentle synth drones. Waves lap the edges of each track, and wind hits the microphone, but its Geybels' melancholy harmonies, that seem to fall in-and-out of tune that make 'Água Viva' so beguiling. It's never overly sentimental, at times veering towards classic dark ambience, but there's a sense of movement throughout as Geybels introduces underwater gong tones and noisy, drowned washes.
Based on a 20-minute field recording and Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector's 1973 experimental novel, 'Água Viva' is a poetic, evocative fusion of environmental sounds, modular moans and faded instrumental shimmers.
Sequences is Antwerp-based sound artist and Audio. Visuals. Atmosphere boss Niels Geybels, and he's built this latest album around Lispector's book, naming each track after her text and using its contents to inform the direction of the sounds. Geybels' starting point was a lengthy field recording he dubbed while traveling, and elements of this soundscape appear and disappear throughout, met by subtle zither and guitar sounds and gentle synth drones. Waves lap the edges of each track, and wind hits the microphone, but its Geybels' melancholy harmonies, that seem to fall in-and-out of tune that make 'Água Viva' so beguiling. It's never overly sentimental, at times veering towards classic dark ambience, but there's a sense of movement throughout as Geybels introduces underwater gong tones and noisy, drowned washes.