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7/30/2019

Whalt Thisney – ThisIsNotThis (2019)




  • Modern classical 
  • Post-classical 
  • Epic 
  • Experimental electronica 
  • Ambient 
  • Glitchtronica 
  • Avant-garde 
  • Art music 
  • Experimentalism

Comment: by bicycling today (30 kilometres in total, 24.1 km/h avs, cross-country and asphalt) I was thinking of how important it is to keep pace in life with different kind of activities like sporting, making and listening to music, reading books, eating etc. Additionally and pertinently, to find out perfect symbiosis between the doings and decisions with enough power to back it all up it could be a formula of happiness. However, before riding the bicycle I was listening to the prolific Portuguese artist Whalt Thisney's subsequent outing ThisIsNotThis, a sequel to WalkThisWay (2019, Batenim) which was a smooth bound of glitches, lone piano chords dropping around here and there, atmospheric layers of electronics and orchestrated music constituting lofty arcs atop. At times a listener can perceive ominous tectonic waves to be scaling throughout the rest of the sound from the bottom . It was a sort of ideal music where moody impressions and artsy ambitions were perfectly counterbalanced at large. In fact, the former did grow out from the latter and then both did supplement one another. All the same can be said about ThisIsNotThis with some exceptions. The recent one is devoid of chanting/spoken word interventions and provides instead of organic/concrete sounds a little bit more vivid glitches in depth and more glitched-out overdrives to variegate the soundscape. Do we need split hairs, though? ThisIsNotThis is a bit less dreamy and soaked in reveries. In any case, deeply rooted in its previous releases with a dollop of changes on a new album this is the way of how an artist could crystallise its oeuvre. It is called the path of an artist. What else could be added but to make acquaintance with the artist's very brand new one This Imagination Machine being issued a couple of days ago. Top tier by any means being released on a German imprint, Aumega Project.