Artist: Kukan Dub Lagan
Title:
Searching for a Fogbow
Label:
Mikelabella Records
Released:
4th July 2020
This
release has been available for a month now. However, it has been a
fare number of years since I’ve heard any of KDL’s productions
and I’m pretty impressed with this album. Itay Berger the man
behind the project goes to great lengths with eloquent words to
explain what a fogbow is and how hard it is to find one, how he is
using this as a parallel for ourselves seeking answers in our own
existences. That’s all well and good but that is not what impressed
me.
What
strikes me about this album is the expression in the moods of the
tracks. Yes this is chillout. However, like a great movie soundtrack,
you can sense not only the calm and joy you would expect from this
genre but also elements of dark foreboding almost menacing passages
within that carry you through a journey.
From
the opening number ‘A Cloud of Candyfloss’ that combines peaceful
calm synth voices with thunderous samples and pitch bending chimes.
Which sends a slight ripple through the sense of calm yet works in
perfect unison. These juxtaposed themes continue in the following
number ‘Culture of Extramundane Creatures’, where waves and
indistinct voices conjure up visions of fun of the beach set against
dark dramatic bass chords and melodic piano. Whilst ‘Surfeit of
Happiness and Agony’ blends sci-fi’esque ambient synths with
heavy tribal drums. The title track is a more laid back peaceful
number then halfway through the cello adds a touch of sadness and
foreboding.
My
conclusion is this gripped me more so than a lot of the chill out
music I have listened to of late. Which in turn has set me in mind to
re-discover and dig deeper into the Kukan Dub Lagan back catalogue.
Reviewed
by Woodzee
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