- Exotica pop
- Glo-fi
- Hypnagogic pop
- Mood music
- Avant-pop
- Art pop
- Ambient pop
- Tiki lounge
- Lounge pop
- Organic electronica
Comment: this
9-notch issue is about sultry chords, sublime theme progressions, and
just about a fine milieu to be created within one's cozy bedroom. As
the cover print suggests it is outside our Western civilization it
brings us to islands in the Pacific Ocean. To Hawaii, and Micronesia,
and Polynesia all of those places which can be considered an earthly
paradise. One sits down on the coast of a laguna and staring at
unearthly beauty around her/him. Behind the project is a genuine
creator from Russia, Vladimir Karpov, who was previously being known
behind the project 2muchachos of which music can be described as more
ambient and folk mixed and because of that having similarities with
the New Weird movement. However, similarly to the previous project
Karpov employs Russian analogue synths Formanta, and Alisa to create
wondrous atmospheric layers and serene horizons. All his sonic tricks
do make impact on the listener. More profoundly, iterative phrases,
reverse sounds. At times it seems to be so unearthly that the beauty
seems to be a bit spooky as if growing out like an offshoot of
Leyland Kirby, for example. In a nutshell, it is a marvellous example
of mood/lounge music. The issue is a part of the discography of
Ingrown Records.
