Shulman - In Search of a Meaningful Moment
Marked ALEPHZ01, Shulman's In Search of a Meaningful Moment is the fledgling label's opening statement, a call to arms for truly global chill music. The opening track "Inner Selves" spins itself through Tuvan throat singers, Jamaican dub, and Continental instrumental space-jazz (yes, you can hear a direct lineage back to Peter Namlook's FAX label circa mid-1990's throughout this record). "A Magnificent Void" expands into stellar spaces with heavenly synths and glottal throat rhythms, world music shot into the vastness of space.
"Consciousness Revoked" spins with a whirlwind of spattered notes, a cascade of synthesizer tones that rise like effervescent bubbles up from an artesian source. "Mushroom Therapy" takes itself onto the dance floor with a swooping synth and a native chant over a percolating trance rhythm, building a strobe lit room of GOA infusion. Ancestral voices moan and lament during the lengthy closer, "Instability," as Schulman brings the pace down and chills us out with a downtempo rendition of a Juno Reactor world beat transmission. Shulman's search for the meaningful moment takes the listener on a global journey -- from east to west, from beat to beatless. It's a search that may not have any end, but the journey-- ah! the journey -- is the key. Recommended.
Shulman
Aleph Zero [2003]
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