Imagine you are 20 years old, have already a classic music education as a base, an awareness of the frontier of both production and current techniques in musical structure. Oh yes and you have a bit of a hand for prose, melodic harmonies and are a rather dab hand at laptop construction. Which essentially is a rundown of Will Wiesenfeld’s background that informs the creation of [Post-foetus] – The Fabric.
However it is in some sense the rendering of emotive space that Wisenfeld demonstrates greatest capacity of engagement with the listener through the album. It definitely would captivate a pop audience if you could find a contemporary space that allowed for complex vocal harmonies and minimalist electronic structures that often waver in syncopated forms disgorging static and wayward bleeps. On Douse a static glitch opening melds with pulsed waves building to a punchy 4/4 kick drum and a wall of vocal harmonies, cut back to texture and then vocal assault envelops the senses. Opening track Migration melds a more classical construction, piano and viola with clattering beats and other electronic flourishes to guild a futuristic paean to earth as a off world future beckons.
The Fabric is a warm experience to say the least and as an excellent debut album that melds the sphere of classical with electronic pop. It doesn’t break new ground, in terms of conceptual structure, but what parts of the musical landscape it covers display an emerging masterful hand at rendering a precise, tempered, playful engagement.
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