This is the debut album from Memorybell, the ambient project of Grant Hazard Outerbridge. The album was recorded live in a single sitting using just a creaky grand piano and two microphones, and focuses on the silence between the musical notes as much as the notes themselves.
Hidden Shoal and Tiny Room Records promise a “psychedelic sci-fi western adventure”, and that’s what they deliver. Arriving at around the same time as HBO’s remake of Westworld, the timing couldn’t be better.
A meditative ambiance and contemporary classical music dominated by piano and strings, and a perfectly structured sequence of the individual pieces provide an uplifting listening experience, punctuated windplay sequences From the conventional jazz section and the vocal parts of the singing artists Joanna Swan, Martine Bijn and Jan Van den Broeke intensify the melancholy basic mood and the overall impression of depth relaxation. The chamber-orchestral character of the production dominates far more than the electronic additions, but the latter do not sound in any sequence superfluous or even disturbing
Tobias is also on this album in an excellent manner capable of visual, cinematic and at times making experimental music that the listener allows to dream of the evil world but that same listener through a musical eruption feet back on sets ground. Encased in a beautiful sound. This time, occasionally with wordless vocals of Chloe March. The track ‘Mirage’, referring to Brian Eno, makes me much emotion loose by the melancholic sounds. But lasts too short, only two minutes.
To apply shortly for the whole ‘Gila Man. That half hour was in my opinion may be an hour or more. The beneficent dream would have lasted even longer. An album without a doubt the “Peak Experience” title worthy.
