Illuminine - Illuminine 1

NEW VINYL LP ON ZEAL RECORDS 2015

180 GRAM VINYL

This slice of no frills ambient comes from Kevin Imbrechts, a bedside composer seeking to communicate his unabashed love of neo-classical and post-rock. On ‘#1’, his own attempt at minimalism comes through both processing and more formalised composition, the two combining for a record in which forlorn melodies come creeping out of unmoveable soundscapes. Let’s go.
What Imbrechts makes is both sublime and grandiose; the plucked guitar notes that punctuate the gentle noise wall of “Llyr” sound exalted with the crystalline sound of London Grammar, echoing out against acoustics that seem to have suddenly transpired, the song expanding outward from its suffocating setting. His use of noise processing, in the meantime, is both assimilating and gentle, creating a torrid backdrop that is nonetheless entirely listenable: in its brief time on earth, “Interlude I” recalls the sweet but caustic drone of Secret Pyramid.

149.95 dkr

Tracklist

A1 Dualisms
A2 Llŷr
A3 Interlude I
A4 For What It's Worth
A5 Interlude II
A6 Ardency
A7 Elegy
B1 Interlude III
B2 Winter, Go
B3 Interlude IV
B4 Lumen Reign
B5 Interlude V
B6 Melancholia
B7 Svengali