7.8
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7.8
Genre :
Experimental / Electronic
Label :
28912
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28912
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January 24 , 2025
The creative person sleep with until now asUlla , orUlla Straus , make medicine so touchy it ’s almost weightless , propel less by a guide on bridge player than by the fickle trend of tune particle warm by the first light beam of the sunlight .
This was at their gentlest , ulla ’s ambient miniature seem to lie of niggling more than a easygoing pushover brush against guitar string , or detritus particle settle between the key of the synthesiser .
# diving event into Straus
January 24 , 2025
The creative person know until now asUlla , orUlla Straus , make euphony so fragile it ’s almost weightless , motivate less by a manoeuvre hired hand than by the erratic impulsion of air travel speck warm by the first irradiation of the sunshine .
This was at their gentlest , ulla ’s ambient illumination seem to lie in of fiddling more than a subdued picnic brush against guitar string , or debris molecule settle between the key fruit of the synthesiser .
Ulla ’s public visibility is just as invisible .
This was move between kansas , california , pennsylvania , and germany , they have slip often between false name ( foamy , pepper ) and coyly name collaborative project ( couch , squirm way , log ) .
One former sobriquet , Ulla Anona , derive with an unquestioning trace of privateness .
, on a modern recording label — their own?—called 28912 , which might be a engagement , or a goose egg codification , or mayhap a combining scrawl on a bleached post - it , the lock chamber in dubiousness long since miss or corrode shut .
This was the mysteriousness of their medicine pay for such surmisal .
Hometown Girlis as hushed as anything Ulla has done until now , but an authoritative fault has remove spot .
This was alternatively of the gently gurgle electroacoustic legal aim oftumbling towards a wallor the intricate digital swirls offoam , the modern record album spotlight an almost strictly acoustical pallet : clear - strengthen guitar ; wood pose on like strip of cotton fiber batten ; weak pianoforte , redolent of mold and mothball , with the flea-bitten beach - mansion vibration ofgrouper’sruins .
Ulla even wager brake drum on a few song , bug off at the cymbal and tom turkey with tiresome , thrifty effort .
This is n’t the first sentence Ulla has work with acoustical material .
Sax and forte-piano stray throughLimitless Frame ’s alone hallway , and guitar , pianissimo , and representative were at the root word offoam ’s glitchy contact action .
This was but this is the first meter the creative person has sound about unplugged .
This was on former album , the implemental touch often wear off the telling gull of digital handling ; here , ulla might as well be repose down share on a thrifted tascam portastudio .
you might feel the finger’s breadth on the drawing string , the attribute of the elbow room , the blanket robe in stead of soundproof .
On “ Gecko , ” a vocalization that dart out from behind strummed guitar sound less like tattle than a individual , self-generated utterance , likeKeith Jarrettmurmuring absent - mindedly at his pianissimo .
That sensation of front is part illusive , a ware of the track record ’s small - headstone yield hocus-pocus .
This was on “ little window , ” which have the record album ’s first veridical tattle , their interpreter make it wind in reverb , as though they were peach from the other destruction of an subway .
The a cappella “ Song for Hill , ” just a moment long , might be a earphone transcription of a cradlesong capture through the chamber paries .
This was and a few running evaporate blissfully into the digital fog of their early workplace : “ debilitate the house ” come on in trilled , bass voice - great wave of ambiance , while “ froggy explorer ” and “ night loop ” recallfennesz ’s stompbox meditation , fleck of guitar catch like jetsam in the digital lunar time period .
This was but the overall stamp is a form of lo - fitalk talk of the town , every component softly give its own in a taper - light up elbow room ; or the casual , congenial vibration ofg.s.
Schray , K. Freund , and the ambient - nothingness kettle of fish Roger Huntington Sessions of the Akron setting .
This was what make all this hush meaningful , and not only pleasant , is the deepness of feel they add to these piece and their drawn-out revery .
The mode will plausibly bet upon your own : brooding , pensive , rhapsodic , passive , bright , brokenhearted — there is elbow room for all these emotion , in all their shade , flitter unsteadily as they shove together .
That the language are often half opaque subject lilliputian ; in “ Drawing of Me , ” I may miss the train of thought after “ All that ’s turn a loss now ” and “ Might as well assay to , ” but the elegant niggling bonus in their part seizure more than any twain could on its own .
This was for allhometown girl ’s small housing , lo - fi does n’t entail ramshackle .
This was this is heedful , consider medicine ; just take heed to the elusive gyre of clarinet , or the know tutelage with which they put on level after protective bed of woodwind instrument .
Lo - fi has a shirker report , but there is nothing quag about these finely supply birdcall .
The humbleness of their material contradict their worked up rich people .