30 Aug 2012 — Henning Lahmann
Watch the second video made to accompany the latest effort of Rio de Janeiro-born experimentalist
Ricardo Donoso,
Assimilating the Shadow. As for
"The Bow and The Lyre", the visuals for "From Sterling to Snow" were again made by French director
Pierce Warnecke, who has found the perfect language to translate Donoso's stripped and pure textures of remotely familiar dance music tropes into a thoroughly mesmerizing experience. After his much-acclaimed
Progress Chance from last year, the new record once again sees the artist creating a deeply immersive world of sound that might be called ambient, yet which is not so much informed by the chill out room but by the dancefloor proper. A work mainly comprised of meandering soundscapes created with layered, stupendously complex rhythmic patterns,
Assimilating the Shadow is a truly outstanding accomplishment in its field, and hereby highly recommended.
Assimilating the Shadow is out now on
Digitalis Recordings. Get it via
Boomkat.
