There’s a certain filmic quality to A Touch Of White—tempting to say Hecker-esque in its ability to access the consciousness, both filling and pulling fragments. Credit this to nearly an hour of static and shimmer that swells ever so slightly towards an end: some kind of great, hyper-suspended movement which eventually must crash. Flowers, sliding off that balcony, perhaps.
It’s the second in a series of soundscapes by artist Petar Alargic, who lives in Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia. Thanks to Magnatune for the introduction.
Clever, that a composition with such a title would erase itself in under five minutes. Living in gradual drone, some place cold where the sublime meets the sinister, “Forever Young” is no ordinary ode to optimism. Instead, it finds peace in knowing that age will, in fact, catch up: it will bury.
Works by Istanbul-based artist Ekin Üzeltüzenci under the name Ekin Fil date back to 2008 at bandcamp. Above is a recent soundcloud stray, though another release is likely not far behind. Meanwhile, find last year’s excellent self-titled LP via Students of Decay.
Just a little, of what exactly is not entirely clear, but this something sounds like it’s exceptionally sweet… impossibly beyond grasp. Lost in Candyland. At least initially… though within a few pitched skips, baby coos and gummy bird chirps, the grounds of “Little” technicolorize into synthesized symphonic festivities. Of course it’s very much the right time for such a twist. Wildarms, that perennially positive pop dreamer, knows this. As do the fine folks at Cascine. So naturally, generously, seasonally… this also leads into a free EP, available for download December 17th.
… But from here, across a barrier, through a window or a screen, in a dream, receiving the transmission with a diode sheen: