Martin Martyn - Carre (H239) [Electronic Music]

This isn't the first time that accomplished solo artists Hideyuki Hashimoto & Yuri Kawai's collaborative project Martin Martyn, a cultured blend of beautifully crafted electronic music and deft piano playing, has appeared in the blog, and it probably won't be the last either.

After a series of more piano focussed releases, their latest single, "Carre" has once again hit the sweet piano to electronica ratio for my personal tastes, and you're in for a treat. The track was born from a spontaneous synth session between the pair and kicks off with what sounds like a distant helicopter rotor blade - a driving percussive frame to hang the unhurried ambient constructs which are in no such rush. A scurrying, insistent synth motif then keeps pace with the rhythm to cement a high tempo ambient electronic swirl - simple but effective, dynamic yet dreamy.

Undeterred, a minimal piano pierces the machine sounds at the halfway mark, tentatively at first - note by gentle note, before being inevitably swept up and along by the impatient electronica, where it's coaxed to higher tempo and intensity, before all parties involved collapse spent in a rapidly fading heap at the end. And breathe.

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Playlist Companion

Find Martin Martyn in the Slowtronic Playlist.