Parallel Worlds – Reflections (Album – Móatún 7)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Ambient, Experimental, Minimal-Electro.
Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl.
Background/Info: Twenty years after his very first album Bakis Sirros have released a considerable number of productions. He strikes back with a new album featuring eight tracks.
Content: This work is an invitation to enjoy the magic and power of analogue sound treatments by this Greek sound alchemist. It sounds pretty space-like but still very accessible by the slow rhythms. The compositions are mixing minimalism and total experimentalism.
+ + + : The main strength of this album -and artist, is the ultimate magic emerging from the analogue equipment he’s working with. He perfectly controls his machines knowing how to get maximum effect from it. It’s a delicate work featuring delicate bleeps while getting more accessible by the slow cadence. I like the darker, mysterious, passages but the entire album is worthy of examination.
– – – : A few cuts sound a bit too much into Experimental music.
Conclusion: Parallel Worlds remains a prolific and ultra creative project; this album being one of the most recommended pieces to listen to.
Best Songs: “Mister E”, “Holographic”, “Sinesculpture”.
Rate: 8.
Artist: www.parallel-worlds-music.com / www.facebook.com/parallelworldsmusic
Label: www.facebook.com/moatun7records
About Parallel Worlds
Parallel Worlds is the main project of Greek musician Bakis Sirros, built around analogue modular synthesizers and step sequencers combined with digital and virtual-analogue instruments. The project traces back to 1994 and became active in the Greek electronic music scene from 1998 onward.
Sirros debuted with the album “Existence” on Rubber Recordings in 2003, followed by “Insight” (2004) and “Far Away Light” (2005) on Shima Records. He then moved to the UK label DiN for “Obsessive Surrealism” (2007) and “Shade” (2009), and continued the relationship through a run of collaborative albums: “Circo Divino” with Alio Die (2010), “Exit Strategy” with Ian Boddy (2011), “Morphogenic” with Dave Bessell (2012), “Elusive Metaphor” with Alio Die again (2014), and “World Adapter” with Self Oscillate (2015).
Sirros also runs the IDM/electronica project Interconnected with German musician Ingo Zobel, and the ambient/experimental project Memory Geist with Steve Law. “Reflections”, reviewed here, arrived twenty years after “Existence” via Móatún 7.
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