This is the calm desperation of cold isolation lost on a post-apocalyptic Earth. Or maybe the world hasn’t been completely destroyed, just transformed into a sterilized bubble with orange skies. For some reason, I can’t stop thinking about Gattaca, and, while I didn’t care for that film, it certainly had a brooding mood. Ekca Liena’s Slow Music for Rapid Eye Movement is an aptly named, minimalistic score for a sci-fi beast.
“Fire Emerging From Mist,” the most guitar-driven track, conveys the same feeling as “Fake Plastic Trees,” only without lyrics or pop sensibilities. This post-chill habitat is an anxious place, filled with nothing real, just dissonance. “Post Altitude” is a siren. The human race is no longer stoned and worthless. There is something more to life than floating above it, disconnected… or stuck in plastic. The haze clears and something brighter, more optimistic, emerges. Futuristic bagpipes vacuum through the fog.
“Reverse Erasing” is by far the strongest song on this album. Nothing but tones and drones and a soft beat. There is a perfect slow build, with strings entering through fuzz and idiophones. This is early videogame nostalgia, without jumping on the 8-bit bandwagon. Ekca Liena borrows from Susumu Yokota’s minimalism (see “Sleepy Eye”), and maybe he’s a demented Eno, making the soundtrack for our generation’s dissociation, instead of music for airports.
[Ekca Liena Myspace]
[Stream/Buy Slow Music for Rapid Eye Movement from Dead Pilot Records]
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