Listening to the seven movements that collectively form ‘Semi Lattice’, you’d be unlikely to fathom the component instruments. Taking piano, guitar and computer, the latter facilitates the manipulation of the former two into a vast swathe of textured, immersive sound which feels considerably greater than the parts, which are transformed beyond all recognition. Gradually evolving, hushed passages gradually enmesh sound on sound to forge immense, dense walls of shimmering sound, long, slow waves.
Each piece is distinct, both in that they’re presented as separate tracks with silent space between them, and in terms of atmosphere. Fretful, tight gasping breaths against distant piano rolls and clattering sounds on ‘2’ create a nagging tension, which is ultimately washed away on an expansive tide of soft ripples of distortion. Elsewhere, water laps against an invisible, unknowable object amidst eerie drones, conjuring images concrete and abstract, fleeting glimpses and hints of other worlds.
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