- Electronic music
- Ambient pop
- Crossover
- Field recording
- New Age
- Organic electronica
- Musique concrète
- Art pop
Comment:
Iñaki Barrocal aka Igniael
is a musician from Andorra, a very small country (467,6
km²) nearby
Spain where the Catalan language is the official language. With
regard to the artist`s name I can assume he may be a Basque by his
own nationality. However, all the songs represented over there are
predominantly sung
in English. Yeah, the course
of 10 tracks is atmospheric, mostly light-hearted and spiritual
(predominantly induced by
choral singing and emotive chants) though
at times one can hear more murky tones and glimpses in his soundscape
as if entering into some of the catacombs in Southern Europe by
feeling the ephemeral span of a human being. The Grim Reaper and his
scythe are doing their work properly
but it should not
be
surprising at all because the balance between life and death must
exist. On the other side,
given that those sounds of water flowing and chirping the birds and the particular singing
one can imagine by attending a place nearby a (bit heretic)
monastery being deviated by the strict Catholic canon. Barrocal`s
mystical approach reminds me a bit of the Italian legend Alio Die`s
spiritual ambient landscapes. Such sort of music I guess could be a
poppy example within the circuit of dark folk/neoclassical/dark wave
followers. The enchanting
issue is a part of the discography of Khannonmusic
Studios.
