Hybrid Leisureland - Scroll Side

[Melancholyman]

Hybrid Leisurland – Scroll Side

Label : Ultimae
Catalog : inre 039
Format : Cd, Album
Country : France
Released : 23 Feb 2010
Genre: Electronic
Style : Ambient

1. Division And Composition 5:08
2. Traditional Drugs 6:48
3. Gentleness Color 6:41
4. Imagination Of Imagination 5:54
5. Breeze Is Nice 6:55
6. Exist Unreality 7:28
7. Breathing Smoke 5:25
8. Threshold 8:50
9a. Balance 6:19
9b. Puppeteer 6:35

Did you ever wonder how it would feel, being microscopic, a slowly moving particle, or even in a contradictory way, to exist without bulk? Well, if you did but never had the opportunity to experience it, you might want to pick up Scroll Side, from music producer Hidetoshi Koizumi aka Hybrid Leisureland. This album is a deep dive, into the micro cosmos of reality. Micro cosmos is a tranquil place, here things happen slow, things are what they are and even though it might seem as the micro cosmos is a rather insignificant place to many, it's here the very foundation of reality is created. Hidetoshi takes you into that place, a place where things are so tiny and minute, so the happenings occurring there seems to have no purpose or value. But this is just prima facie, as you travel along the soundscapes, beings are introduced, and even if you are never told what the function of these beings are, there is a strong emphasis on the feeling that it's of great significance After a while, the canvas Hidetoshi is trying to paint becomes more and more clear. From the micro cosmos you started in, great worlds starts to develop, icy caves, and lush organic spaces full of life. If plants could tell you how they feel, this would surely fit better than most descriptions available. After a long and contemplative journey, the ending track puts you in a for long sought mood of balance, where things converge into a perfect harmony. Wowi!

That was the more poetic description of the album. How about putting it in words so that someone reading this might have a hint of what it is. Don't expect any bass, long build ups with massive peaks, or any other kind of more minimal or downtempo sound. This release is pure ambient, and it's a very modest type of it. A type of ambient often pushing you to a surface from beneath, but never letting you reach it. The album throughout has a very hypnotic base, there is always some loop of sound building the basis, or setting the pace if you will. High pitch sounds and crisp production, gives a very acidic, organic and sometimes crystallized feeling. This release is rather monotonous but that is also they way it has to be, otherwise the things conveyed by it wouldn't be possible.

This is an album full of expectations, hopes and desires, those feelings that you can endorse yourself with before going to sleep as you are watching the stars, on a clear night sky. It says in the release info of this album, that the themes are the contradiction between human existence and interpersonal communication. What I get from this, is the peculiar notion, of how on the one hand people can seem to communicate between one another, and we seem to often perfectly understand each other, but on the other hand, we can never have any knowledge about other peoples introspective experience. But on Scroll Side, in the end there is no contradiction, music in it's essence is experience, and there is no contradiction in perceiving experience. Perhaps music is the means for us to really tell one another about ones own introspective experience, in a way far more complex than any linguistic language can ever be able to. And from what I understand from Hidetoshi Koizumi he must have a very wonderful conception of the world, and it's yours to share with this album.

As always from Ultimae this is top quality stuff. I can see no sign of this feature dwindling, on the contrary, the releases during the past few years has only increased in class. A great album, end of discussion..

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[frozen dream]

one cannot review this album unpoetic

[longloststar]

I would like this album much more an octave lower, find it hard to relax to music this high pitch.

[Melancholyman]

I would like this album much more an octave lower, find it hard to relax to music this high pitch.

 

Good point.

[Trance2MoveU]

I found this to be boring with no real evolution. It could almost be described as "Ultimae Light." Because sometimes, Aes Dana is just too hard.

 

Mdk