A cinematic opening provoking thoughts of drama and potential espionage this track begins to unfold like a well-versed movie soundtrack. A film you think you may have seen before but probably never have. The light airy touch of the musical arrangements makes enough space for some intriguing samples adding earie qualities and even more unanswered questions.
The crashing of waves maybe, an apocalyptic landscape possibly, this track guides your thoughts into multiple “Possibilities” let this dark ambient soundtrack play out until the end credits roll.
If you like your electronica served with a generous sprinkle of space dust, I can highly recommend the album “First 2 Experiments” by Joel Shea and Lucy Pereira from back in 2017. if my research serves me right – that is, if this is indeed the same Joel Shea – it’s a wonderful experimental music project featuring just two tracks and a total album running length of 9 minutes, each moment just as dark, rich and enticing as “Possibilities”.
From a sprinkling of space dust to the ever-evolving melting pot of experimental electronica his work includes the use of text to speech software (a familiar tool for me working in the Telecoms industry) so as a nerd I am drawn to this. Also using low pitch drone, synths, field recordings, guitars and other magpie gathered samples for his music production.
His latest work using synth cords lovingly squeezed through a distortion pedal, to produce effective, eclectic works like “Blend In”, the opener on 2023’s ‘Fuck Your Nazi Welkin III: Conformity”. This mind-bending stuff is produced under the name of Beckton Alps2 and having a brief rummage through his back catalogue, the description for the album “Glarry” of “pissing about with guitars” declares the simplistic genius of Joel Shea.
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