Sawi Lieu – Fluorescence (2012)
- Noise
- Post-rock
- Crust punk
- Rhythmic noise
- Experimental rock
- Dreamwave
- Avant-rock
- Ambient
Comment:
the Indonesian music scene continues to surprise me. My earlier experiences
were hooked up with the Indonesian indie scene, and an one-man-project called
Cortical whose issue Entropy EP (2015, Yes No Wave) was a fabulous
insight into the cutting-edge progressive rock/RIO world. However, Sawi Lieu`s
issue Fluorescence deserves its name because of radiating vivid rays of
light on different frequencies and in different directions. At times the issue
is calmed down drifting somewhere between ambient and blissful
chillwave/dreamwave landscapes (Crystal Vibration). Indeed, the piece
chimes like an ambient music composition being produced and subjugated to
exotica pop/tiki music ideology. However, the track is in stark contrast to the
next piece I-ON, which is a downright attack through the torrents of
blasting drum rhythms, zombie vocals and signal-alike electronic sounds and
synthesised overdrives and flickering bold bass waves. However, the ending
synthesiser passage unites these two compositions together. In a word, it is
the atmospheric crust punk. It is followed by Lifetime Imaging, the
short-running track wherein atmospheric layers are propelled by tectonic, noisy
blasts. The same could be admitted about a track named Absorpsi though
the latter involves ill-omened hisses and loops nearby. Resonansi will
end this 7-notch issue with ovoid-shaped guitar echoes cranking up loudness
until it becomes resonate. All in all, the whole is a tumultuous journey, which
makes the listener to get aroused. It is a very fine issue being a part of the
discography of Experia Net Label.
