Time-warping material from Berlin-based Aussie guitarist Jules Reidy, assembling gentle microtonal sine waves and subtle chops of outdoor environmental recording to manufacture an anxious, but unmistakeably pastoral mood.
If you've only heard Reidy's 12-string guitar-focused material you might be in for a surprise. 'Gardening' is a consciously minimal move from Reidy, and delves further into electronic realms only hinted at on 2019's Black Truffle-released "In Real Life" and last year's "Vanish". Soft-focus sine tones create the majority of the sound, but this isn't fuzzy music for beaming outdoor scenes. Reidy's careful tuning of each tone allows a sense of mystery to grow gently, that's enhanced by occasional pads, piano hits and disquieting field recordings.
We're guessing the environmental recordings are taken from people gardening, given the title, but Reidy's usage is so brief and particular that they refuse to allow sentimentality to seep through. Birdsong is fleeting, and voices are too indistinct to fully make out - the only constants are the clustered sine chimes, that shudder with eerie intensity. It sounds like a set of electronic bells operating in a distant pocket universe, blowing in the solar wind.
Haunted music, in the best possible way. One for fans of Oren Ambarchi, Jake Meginsky, gamelan music, or even early electronic music pioneer Raymond Scott. So good.
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Time-warping material from Berlin-based Aussie guitarist Jules Reidy, assembling gentle microtonal sine waves and subtle chops of outdoor environmental recording to manufacture an anxious, but unmistakeably pastoral mood.
If you've only heard Reidy's 12-string guitar-focused material you might be in for a surprise. 'Gardening' is a consciously minimal move from Reidy, and delves further into electronic realms only hinted at on 2019's Black Truffle-released "In Real Life" and last year's "Vanish". Soft-focus sine tones create the majority of the sound, but this isn't fuzzy music for beaming outdoor scenes. Reidy's careful tuning of each tone allows a sense of mystery to grow gently, that's enhanced by occasional pads, piano hits and disquieting field recordings.
We're guessing the environmental recordings are taken from people gardening, given the title, but Reidy's usage is so brief and particular that they refuse to allow sentimentality to seep through. Birdsong is fleeting, and voices are too indistinct to fully make out - the only constants are the clustered sine chimes, that shudder with eerie intensity. It sounds like a set of electronic bells operating in a distant pocket universe, blowing in the solar wind.
Haunted music, in the best possible way. One for fans of Oren Ambarchi, Jake Meginsky, gamelan music, or even early electronic music pioneer Raymond Scott. So good.
Time-warping material from Berlin-based Aussie guitarist Jules Reidy, assembling gentle microtonal sine waves and subtle chops of outdoor environmental recording to manufacture an anxious, but unmistakeably pastoral mood.
If you've only heard Reidy's 12-string guitar-focused material you might be in for a surprise. 'Gardening' is a consciously minimal move from Reidy, and delves further into electronic realms only hinted at on 2019's Black Truffle-released "In Real Life" and last year's "Vanish". Soft-focus sine tones create the majority of the sound, but this isn't fuzzy music for beaming outdoor scenes. Reidy's careful tuning of each tone allows a sense of mystery to grow gently, that's enhanced by occasional pads, piano hits and disquieting field recordings.
We're guessing the environmental recordings are taken from people gardening, given the title, but Reidy's usage is so brief and particular that they refuse to allow sentimentality to seep through. Birdsong is fleeting, and voices are too indistinct to fully make out - the only constants are the clustered sine chimes, that shudder with eerie intensity. It sounds like a set of electronic bells operating in a distant pocket universe, blowing in the solar wind.
Haunted music, in the best possible way. One for fans of Oren Ambarchi, Jake Meginsky, gamelan music, or even early electronic music pioneer Raymond Scott. So good.
Time-warping material from Berlin-based Aussie guitarist Jules Reidy, assembling gentle microtonal sine waves and subtle chops of outdoor environmental recording to manufacture an anxious, but unmistakeably pastoral mood.
If you've only heard Reidy's 12-string guitar-focused material you might be in for a surprise. 'Gardening' is a consciously minimal move from Reidy, and delves further into electronic realms only hinted at on 2019's Black Truffle-released "In Real Life" and last year's "Vanish". Soft-focus sine tones create the majority of the sound, but this isn't fuzzy music for beaming outdoor scenes. Reidy's careful tuning of each tone allows a sense of mystery to grow gently, that's enhanced by occasional pads, piano hits and disquieting field recordings.
We're guessing the environmental recordings are taken from people gardening, given the title, but Reidy's usage is so brief and particular that they refuse to allow sentimentality to seep through. Birdsong is fleeting, and voices are too indistinct to fully make out - the only constants are the clustered sine chimes, that shudder with eerie intensity. It sounds like a set of electronic bells operating in a distant pocket universe, blowing in the solar wind.
Haunted music, in the best possible way. One for fans of Oren Ambarchi, Jake Meginsky, gamelan music, or even early electronic music pioneer Raymond Scott. So good.