Artist: Obsqure
Title:
An Oriental Banquet
Label:
Cosmicleaf Records
Released:
1st July 2019
Having already
bagged and exhausted his debut album ‘Tabla Rasa’ I was eager to
hear this release. I found this outing although it retains the
Oriental fusions a lighter outing than his debut at times putting me
in mind of Buddah Bar or even Cafe Del Mar compilations.
The album gets
underway with the title track. Where dramatic cinematic strings and
keys, are layered over gentle down-tempo percussion, before the
trip-hop beat drops and adds more emphasis and the melody moves into
an eastern direction. The next piece ‘Sufi Bazaar’ fuses
electronic tones and eastern flutes counterbalanced, with shuffling
trip-hop beats and subtle dirty bass. Moving on to ‘Shores of
Orion’ which juggles soulful vocal snippets and clarinet providing
a summery chill out feel.
The orchestral feel
returns with ‘Machinery’ and it’s not too far removed from the
opening track, just slower in pace. While the intro to‘The Lost
Souls of Tamezret’ sound like a snake charmer has been fed through
an fx unit, before emerging into a pleasant piece of electronica and
pulling the snake charmer back into the mix. The next track ‘November
Rain’ is slightly more atmospheric in the intro and a two-step beat
is applied, once again it has a relaxing and orchestral feel to the
piece. Finally, to see out the album is ‘Niagra Halls’ and I
absolutely love this. Again, it’s orchestral but this time with a
lovely ethic vocal snippet added. At times in the latter half of the
track it reminds me of Bardo State’s classic ‘Seneca’ which in
my book is a good thing.
Reviewed by Woodzee
Links
Other recent
Cosmicleaf releases to explore
JP Illusion- Artifical Spirit
A new single of ethno psy-chill fusion
https://cosmicleaf.bandcamp.com/album/artificial-spirit
GMO & Dense –
The Blue Hole
Another outing of
psygressive chill out on this new single
I-One – Forms of
Water
An album which
journeys through natural field recordings an ambient music
Gregory Paul Mineeff
– Thinking of Monday
An ambient piano
theedsingle with a down-tempo remix from Sideliner.
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