Jonas
Munk is a multi-instrumentalist from Fyn, Denmark. He is most well known for
his work with Causa Sui and Manual. He has also been involved in a large number
of other electronic music collaborations as well. This is his new solo record
from 2012 featuring 7 tracks ranging from 2 to 8½ mins in length. Orca starts
with an analog synthesizer loop like old Tangerine Dream and slowly other
instruments enter in but mostly other keyboards but also some guitar. A spacey
one floats in and over and some different percussion sounds start to appear as
it builds as well. Cool stuff. Blue Dawn is a short 2½ min piece where the
keyboard has this cool spacey, flangy effect and you hear the sound of birds in
the background. This leads into the 8½ min track called Current. It starts off
with a bass and guitar line that has the feel of Colour Haze but not sound and
then the guitar echoes away in a very cool way and some spacey stuff and then
comes back again to repeat the cycle. Jens Aagaard plays tambourine on this
track, otherwise all instruments on the record were recorded by Jonas. A very
Colour Haze like guitar comes in as the analog synth bubbles float into the
soundscape. The guitar section fades away as multiple layers of synths take
over as they loop over and over and then an organ solo comes in. The guitar
does not go away for good though. Very cool track. Senses is another short
track, around 3½ mins long. Another all synthesizer track like old tangerine
dream. Flip the record over now and you start with the short title track, Pan. IT
features some beautiful guitar playing. Schelling starts with a like fast clock
sound and then another analog drone sound joins the musical medley, as the lead
synthesizer space takes the lead and this one has a pretty fast pace. The last
track, Sea of Orange the main synth loop is quite slow, while he nicely layers
the echoey spacey keyboard over the top. Very spaced out. A very nice record.
This first press in on red vinyl in 500 copies.
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