Ecovillage – Sacred World (2018)

Constellation Tatsu

• New Age 
• Dreamwave 
• Art pop 
• Ambient 
• Post-rock 
• Organic electronica 
• Post-pop 
• Avant-pop

Comment: the duo of Emil Holmström and Peter Wikström aka Ecovillage's music has been changed a bit in comparison to one of their first outings since the beginning of the 10s. While the complicated formula they did have established then can be superimposed upon the recent sound as well. The influences obviously come from intellectual rock and experimental music scenes like krautrock, progressive rock, and Kosmische Musik. For instance, some rarefied extractions you can map out on this 5-notch issue used to hark back to Manuel Göttsching's experiments on atmospheric guitars and spaced-out electronic treatments in the beginning of the 70s. Howerer, at times one must go further back in time by getting to the exuberant flickers of tiki and exotica music. Thirdly, though, it is an example of contemporary indie music being a part of chillwave, glo-fi and hypnagogic pop movement. Undoubtedly, you are not going to have objections by drawing parallels upon the likes of The Real Estate, Ducktails, x. y. r., Tont, and Monster Rally. From the aforementioned line apart an album called With Fragile Wings We Reach The Sun (2013, Parallax Sounds) was more a poppy case of shoegaze, baggy and dream pop amalgamation. More profoundly, in comparison to one of their first issues being released on EverythingIsChemical, and Beko DSL, those heavenly sonorous bows of droning strings are traded for blissful laid-back flute whiffs and sultry field recordings, and trance-y tanpura meanders chiming as if the parable of having been living with the world at peace for a while. Musically it used to be more than ever before in concordance with the term "ecovillage" due to sustainable and contemplative intentions and accomplishments. I also added the term "post-rock" among the tags though it is similarly as conditional as it is related to late period Talk Talk' music (in the sense the phase of the style is left behind or followed it just with the purpose to get rid of it). The masterpiece is a bit in the discography of Constellation Tatsu. For me, alongside with Joxfield ProjeX, another duo, the most blistering Swedish act now.