Tuesday, July 19, 2022

"A Memory Away" by Dynastor

I am in love with this new release from Dynastor (the nom de musique of Dutch musician and DJ Maurits Nieuwenhuis). It recalls the works of the legendary Harold Budd and Eno. I like all the tracks but the first three--"A Memory Away," "Beyond The Lens," and "Behind The Curtain"--really are a sort of floating perfection.

The release statement says:
"Lingering fingerprints of a time bygone, hints of a scent once always, a photograph. The dust settles, dancing in the the last rays of sunlight. These days were felt and the smiles and tears we shed are now or the past. The letters we wrote remain, the pictures fade as the world beyond the lens morphs into its ever changing continuum, leaving us with just our creation; a memory away. This album is an expression of nostalgia, capturing the bittersweet evocation of reading letters from the past, seeing the photographs, the wrenching effect of smelling the familiar scents of a time long passed and realizing that the world is always changing, and so are you.

Created with many recordings of nature, instruments, non-instruments and processed using a wide variety of techniques including tape, granular synthesis and analog synthesis, Dynastor explores the storytelling quality of music, creating evocations of places, people, memories and their passing."



https://dynastor.bandcamp.com/

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