Jello:Voile (Peacefrog)
(the shrink wrap sticker reads 'produced by Bola' and the sleeve
credits production to 'the Bolaman'.)
downtempo modified hip-hop beats, langorous melodies and a whole lot
of analog synth sounding squigs, bleeps and gurgles. the jazz-oetry
track 'Shinoque' comes closest to explaining why this record is out
on Peacefrog.
somewhere in the seventies-referencing
Tomita-Vandelis-etc-retro-analog-madness, there's a kind of corny
melodic thing that happens (like in "Vamillagade" or "Pequil"). with
my archness filter set properly it goes down okay, otherwise i'm
unpleasantly reminded of the hackwork one finds in Hollywood
filmscores.
and. I don't know. That thing. Where you take a hiphop drum pattern
and replace the drum parts with squirrelley little synth sounds.
stale idea.
still...the guy's intriguing. "Conokut" delivers, for instance. he's
got something on his mind, with these long harmonic textures and
anachronistic synth sounds. now that he's producing more than one
album every five years it would be interesting to see if he can
really push the idea somewhere unexpected.
I don't know, I'd been listening to a lot of (often boring) jazz
lately, and then I put on some early Coltrane/McCoy Tyner stuff.
Their harmonic concept was just so brilliant and intoxicating. People
doing electronica have brains just as big as those guys, you'd think
someone would really blow the harmonic roof off this scene one of
these days.
k
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