Anantakara – Amor Mundi / Life As An Infinite Flow (Album – Wool-E Discs)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, Electro-Ambient, Experimental, Minimal.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: Anantakara is a Belgian solo-project driven by Philippe Wauman. Last year he released his second album in the “Belgian NeuMusik”-series, this album being released one year after “Momentum Lapses – Spots Of Suspended Time”. The new work is inspired by the philosopher Spinoza and ‘the notion of the Infinite and how nature is seen as a power of expression of this Infinity’.
Content: This album sounds like an invitation to travel. I’m not sure it clearly reflects the notion of Infinite, but it clearly sounds like an Electronic voyage; now into cinematographic passages, next into a kind of Jazzy Film-Noir and later on into some dark, Electro-Minimalism.
+ + + : Anantakara achieved a mysterious piece of music, which is mainly devoted to Ambient, but also features multiple influences. I didn’t exactly expect the somewhat Jazzy inspired “Amo Ergo Sum”. But I prefer the Minimal/Experimental “Riding The Flickering Crests” and also recommend listening to the delicate sound treatments emerging at “A Secret Might”. The work covers a wide spectrum of influences and that’s precisely what makes this opus accessible.
– – – : When an album becomes too diversify it sometimes leads to confusion; the feeling you’re listening to a compilation instead of an album from one artist.
Conclusion: This album needs a few listening, but it clearly has something intriguing and probably less rational than its source of inspiration…
Best songs: “Riding The Flickering Crests”, “Amo Ergo Sum”, “Sister Moon”.
Rate: (7).
Artist: www.anantakara.com / www.facebook.com/Anantakara
Label: www.wool-e-discs.be / www.belgianneumusik.be /
About Anantakara
Anantakara is the electro-acoustic project of Belgian musician Philippe Wauman, active since 2011; per his Discogs profile, Wauman describes himself as a ‘sound calligrapher’ blending ambient, electronica, downtempo, ethnic and neo-classical elements, and has released 14 albums to date. He also co-founded the duo Sogué with Burkinabe musician Ras Madi and is a member of the electronic group Aerodyne.
“Amor Mundi (Life As An Infinite Flow)” followed Wauman’s “Momentum Lapses – Spots Of Suspended Time” by one year and was released as catalogue number BNM032 via Wool-E Discs‘s “Belgian NeuMusik” series.
Support Side-Line
More people read Side-Line than ever, and there is still no paywall and no advertising. Readers pay for it instead - from $5 a month.
Why we ask
Advertising revenues across the media are falling fast. Unlike many news organisations we have not put up a paywall, and we refuse to add annoying advertising, so we need to ask for your help. Side-Line’s independent journalism takes time, money and hard work to produce, and we do it to push the artists we like, who are equally fighting to survive.
Handled by PayPal.
I have been working for over 30 years with Side-line as the main reviewer. My taste is eclectic, uncoventional and I prefer to look for the pearls, even if the bands are completely unknown, thus staying loyal to the Side-Line philosophy of nurturing new talents.
