Description
- Looking Glass
- Jupiter
- Nocturne
- Oxygen
- Ladybird
- Quercus
- Green Fridge
- Mertonome
- Parting
- Min Ros
Immediately intoxicating, this highly crafted work ushers in a new experience in the world of electronic music that is human, organic, and inspiring, identifying Northcore as a electronic group for the present world.
Sylvain Lupari / gutsofdarkness.com & synth&sequences.com –
Here is an unexpected release out of Spotted Peccary label. Northcore is an obscure English duet composed of Carl Gibbons (keys, synths, voices and effects) et Jana Tillotson (voices and effects) who built an enviable reputation in the spheres of underground EM, without having realized a single album. And its this American label, rather famous for its EM to caresses of progressive New Age or to soft sequenced impetus, which managed to capture the sound universe of Northcore with a superb musical production where all the cultural details are stigmatized with a master’s hand. Desatero, for 10 commandments, is an album without borders. Presented in a nice disturbing card artwork (like old LPs), its a fascinating musical mosaic of 10 titles, from which the near half are sung and/or told, which navigate between down-tempos and ambient world music in a wonderful poetic envelope. Heres an autopsy of a surprising album which bewitches in every listening.
Footsteps creasing a metallic snow open Looking Glass” which displays all of the sonic magnificence of Desatero with a sound painting to thousand prisms. Ethereal breaths lift prismic dusts when a felted voice gives the start to a delicious down-tempo on which hangs on a melodious line cavorting between the ambiophonic meanders of “Looking Glass”. The rhythm is divided between its glaucous and crystalline atmospheres