Monday, December 8, 2014

Poordream - Ninetynine (2014)

My recent “discovery” Poordream – Ninetynine was released a week ago. I was bored, so I decided to visit some music label’s sites and, by chance, found it in the Tympanik Audio website. Wasn’t expecting much and boy, how wrong I was.


The album opens with “Despair”. Is it despair really? The piano part is sad indeed, but the rest not so much. I would say that the end of the track evokes something opposite of despair, that is, hope. Nevertheless great opening track. The samples used in “Urbanies” makes us imagine an urban scenery, but they don’t appear through the whole song so that scenery is lost in the middle (maybe it was intended). “Bangla Razor”, on the other hand, makes us think about India, thanks to the bass sequence that is followed by the singing of some Indian folk. “Ninetynine” is a cinematic piece which uses recordings of instruments such as: cello, violin and a classical guitar. “Open Probability” is the only track of the album with vocals it in, they sound authentic and are very atmospheric. In “Backbiter” we find an electronic beat accompanied by cello/violin parts, from the fourth minute the track speeds up and introduces an Australian instrument rarely used in electronic music, digiridoo (at least I think that it is digiridoo). “Flying Blind” is my personal favorite. It really makes you feel like you are flying over the mundane things and I presume our lovely Schopenhauer would be satisfied with it.

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