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11/28/2019

Bleak House – Outwardly (2019)




  • Improvised music 
  • Electro-acoustic 
  • Avant-garde 
  • Experimentalism 
  • Post-classical 
  • Minimalism 
  • Modern classical 
  • Art music 
  • Post-rock 
  • Chamber rock 
  • Avant-rock 
  • Experimental rock

Comment: it is always being the privilege to explore the discography of a Chicago-based imprint, Pan Y Rosas Discos, the imprint of multifaceted music. This time the British trio Bleak House (the members of it are involved in Keshco, a represented and praised group at RMH) blesses the listener with a 13-notch issue either imbued with watery smooth piano shapes full of hypnotic iterations with the aid of varied discreet electronic music and beguiling orchestrations or improvising on hoarse yet artsy guitar chords which also have been managed to establish round orbits in one's perception. However, the abovementioned elements and details make up lots of different combinations in balance and intensity inclined variations throughout the pace. Alternately the instruments get along well, it seems to be even complementary to swap an instrument for the other one. By listening to either guitar or piano playing one can hear profound serpentine layers of the echo flickering relentlessly behind playful chords. Additionally, those repetitive chords have been set up and bridged with one another in the way to ultimately result in brilliant flashes of the music. In other words, the formative side is saturated with the emotive side. For instance, enjoy a track called Repaired Swing Set. All in all, it is one of the most enchanting releases I have heard during this year. And the issue is a good example of recommendation how the energy of a human being should creatively be transformed for. There can be drawn disparate parallels upon the artists, from kindred souls like Hauschka, Max Richter and Lubomyr Melnyk to chamber rock/post-rock acts like A Silver Mt. Zion to vagabonds like John Fahey, and Vic Chesnutt to post-progressive acts like Penguin Cafe Orchestra.