Artist : Fontaine
Album : Delays
Year : 2012
Genre : Ambient
Quality : 230kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint Stereo
Source : CD
Playtime : 0h 24m
Size : 43.44mb
Label : Twice Removed
Catalognr : TR015
Tracklist:
01. Delays 6:46
02. Faded 3:19
03. Brothers 5:37
04. Shearwater 3:09
05. Atomised 5:54
Releasenotes:
Delays is a positively wondrous mini album in that it is based on a dichotomy I
have severely missed in 2012, given the fact that I cannot possibly know the
whole Dronescape: John Doak unchains a humble vivacity. The expected blizzards,
airy wind textures and lofty breezes in tandem with hazy mists made it to this
album altogether, gently whirring and dynamically whirling along. But the
nucleus to my ears is provided by the gorgeous synthscapes. Enough of the
electro-acoustic formula, at least right now for this very moment when Delays is
running! Fontaine goes back to the drawing board and reaches a timeline where
the surface of the sound waves was freely oscillating thanks to analogue
equipment and an overly glaring advection of high-pass filters, various
modulators and other frequency-channeling controls. My aforementioned link to
the synth-heavy 80's might be bewildering to many listeners and probably the
artist himself, but it is used to stress the ever-changing tinges and hues of
the streams, the iridescent art form of the placed synth stabs and the Detroit-y
nature of the arrangements. The steady beats are obviously missing, but mostly
everything else is on board. From the celestial frost of the opener over the
encapsulating moleskin shelter of warmth in Faded to the endpoint-evoking
Atomised with its boost in lachrymosity, Delays is a great debut of a skilled
musician on the at time of writing one-year old Twice Removed label. Remix-wise,
I tend to be lured by the Drone-based offerings by He Can Jog and L_coma, but a
special mention is earned by the definite adrenaline booster that is
Bengalfuel's Risky Chicken Mix of Atomised; the duo might have had the same
impressions in mind than I have, namely that Delays is a Rave artifact at its
heart, but well-camouflaged and terrifically masked as a Drone record.
Bengalfuel carve out the quirkier undertones and kick them into the multicolored
spotlight. An audacious move! And as we all know, audacity equals success in
these times.
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