Artist: Terra Nine
Title:
Eternity
Label:
Sofa Beats
Released:
12th Oct 2019
Mike Wescott returns
under his down-tempo guise Terra Nine, with eight new tracks of viola
driven dub and psy-chill flavoured goodness following his annual
European festival stint.
The album sets off
in slow motion with ‘Dub Terratory’ where almost trance like
sequences spring off the squelchy bass chords and electronic rhythms.
The next piece ‘Metatonic’ lifts slowly from it’s ambient space
music like intro into tabla percussion, fusing ethnic and harmonious
angelic voices throughout the piece.
The journey takes
another turn with ‘First Date’ where a fuzzy electro groove leads
slows down and then leaps up slightly with piano keys and soaring
voila, which I guess could well reflect the emotional turmoil of the
title. There’s no speed fuelled car chase with ‘Vanishing Point’
it begins more akin to drum and bass with the brakes on, while the 10
minute road trip dips through atmospheric avenues and moments of
angelic viola licks.
The following piece
‘Ocean’ retains those angelic voila licks but with somewhat of a
dark underbelly than the atmospheric feel of the previous piece.
Whilst there’s something of a fusion of 80’s euro synth-pop and
90’s trance slowed down with ‘New Vibration’.
There is a slow
sweeping build up on ‘Incandescent’ that you could be fooled into
thinking it will take off. That is, until the slow plodding beat is
employed and your dropped into an atmospheric ambience. However,
don’t rest on your laurels just yet as Mike springs into harmonious
dnb for the majority of the track. Now unusually and finally we
reach the title track ‘Eternity’ and it really is a beautiful
piece where piano chords are infused into drum and bass and
indistinct vocal samples.
Review by Woodzee
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