A massive two-part release from Tetsuya Hori along with 1605munro and Daniel Erisman delivers in unreal vastness that comes through with a lush and orchestrated atmosphere and slowly builds into a worldly and almost sonically driving soundscape, but the songs also lean on a heavy cinematic backbone and blend natural and digital instrumentation together with such a wondrous approach that everything is seamless.
Voltaic Landscape Zero is again, a two-part release with each track ranging right around 14 minutes each and you begin to feel this almost fantastical and Vivid undertone the deeper you listen.
The first part is very immersive and starts with a small digital electronic beat that builds and grows with synth pads that span across the atmosphere of the song and float through its ether and then it has a sort of breakdown area where everything gets quiet for a moment and when it comes back you begin to hear more of a combination of actual string orchestra and that electronic tendency as well.
These two textures brought together is brilliant when it's done right which it certainly is here, and it's very easy to get engulfed in this whole thing.
One of the best parts about this is that as immersive as it is it does leave plenty of room for your imagination and when you listen to the songs all the way through your imagination does start to run and this is something that you don't get often so to get it here was not only refreshing but in a strange way it was kind of rejuvenating.
The second part of this release is slightly more psychedelic or experimental if you ask me although the whole thing is a bit experimental, the second part expands a little more into that area and you hear some different kinds of synth work along with more orchestrated strings but it's also a slower kind of growth with a little bit more surprises around the corners.
For me, there was also a little bit of a haunt or a sort of dark edge that sat in the underbelly of this track but it's not consistent throughout the song because you have these changes in emotion and color from right to dark and then back to bright again.
The whole thing is gorgeous and it's an amazing escape because this release absolutely has the ability to pull you away from your surroundings and put you in a different world altogether for a chunk of time and I think that that's something that's incredibly connective musically because again, you don't get this often.
I definitely cannot remember the last time I had to react with me myself back to my own reality again because the music I was listening to pull me away.
I loved it.
I feel like this is the kind of stuff that I've been missing for a while and just the idea of bringing together those kinds of digital and natural instruments and such an orchestral approach really worked super well.
Tetsuya Hori is a producer and a composer along with being a pianist of course who has won several awards for being a composer I must have been part of multiple projects for years.
now, we're no strangers to Tetsuya as we have had the pleasure of listening to his previous release which is a gorgeous album called Triadic for Cello and Piano Four Hands and is absolutely astounding. Tetsuya has put a lot of amazing music into the world and this latest release showcases his open-mindedness as an artist and as a person in terms of bringing sounds together and it worked like a charm.
Take a listen to this release as soon as you can and do it with headphones on.
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