Binar Dhal - Talos (Cupola) [Electronic Music]
- The Slow Music Movement
- 4 hours ago
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Binar Dhal aka Emmanouel Rovithis is a Greek-based producer unhurriedly exploring the electronic music condition. He released his accomplished debut single in 2022, and then, nothing. Until now.
His sophomore release is a five-track EP, possibly album considering each track is eight minutes long, inspired by Talos, a mythological bronze automaton who kept watch over the island of Crete. Fittingly, this ancient creature/proto-robot has been given a distinctly futuristic soundtrack, kicking off with the densely layered, intermittently pulsting, droning ambient sounds of "Climbing Sunrays". "Cosmo Logia" follows, letting some sunlight and air into the arrangement so the impressive sound design can be better appreciated, the lethargic beat anchoring all sorts of precision-placed ghostly vocals, strings, bleeps and sounds of unknown provenance.
"Silk Stone Mech" melts static crackle into cultured low-gravity drones before distorting and evolving a subtly melodic, gently rhythmic nature, eventually evaporating into the ether. "Shapes in the Horizon" shows serious, well-executed arrangement ambition with its looped field recordings, shapeshifting nature and mid-track drama, before the EP concludes with the oddly electroacoustic, even sentimental at times, ambient glitchiness of "Friends with a Droid".
It's a seriously accomplished sophomore EP from a talented producer, who will hopefully start to release music between World Cups as well from now on.
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