Gouthy was born in Barcelona in 1977 and began his love of electronica through the Vangelis soundtrack to Blade Runner.
His first album , also on Acustronica, is entitled A Long Travel For The Space.
The eleven tracks on his second album purport to be a kind of musical autobiography although Dead Man Walking Live Style is dedicated to the Tim Robbins movie and the cover shot of a large fungus hardly suggests we are going to get anything close up and personal.
His take on instrumental electronica glides past with a steady momentum but nothing really grabs the attention. Neither dance orientated or straight ambient, it functions only as a kind of anonymous movie soundtrack.
The record offers a pleasant enough distraction but lacks any real possibility for human engagement. The tracks At The School and Problems At The School both have a similar mood when you would have thought from the title of the latter that it should evoke a more tense or disjointed atmosphere.
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Another pair of tracks - Robot Simphony (sic) and Robot Attack - accurately identify the abstract, detached nature of the sounds which make the album title seem more like a case of wishful thinking than an accurate description of the content.
Gouthy on Myspace
Acustronica label website
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