Justin Wright - A Really Good Spot (2022)

The Quebec-based cellist and composer, Justin Wright, is here to "to push the boundaries of new classical and experimental indie music, and erase the lines between synthetic and acoustic sounds". While very ambitious goal, his music certainly is located on the border between the old and the new, and it's "A Really Good Spot".

The cello sounds here are the driving force of the lively soundscapes where there's tons of things going on: the piano keys, the strings, the electronica backgrounds. It works together in harmony, although more often than not, it is close to this kind of artistic chaos that  always brings something touching to life. Especially when Wright is joined by Thanya Iyer: together with her vocals, We're Still Here sounds especially free form-like and experimental. This all shows the artist's unique view on making music, the process of which ends up with this album being "a surrealist spectrum of methodology, where the techniques showcased may or may not be real, where the orchestration confidently reinforces the most haphazard nonsense elements, and where the playfulness occasionally steps aside for moments of somber clarity:.

A Really Good Spot costs 8.5 EUR (7 GBP).

Check: Hellbrunn Automatons

Country: Canada

Genre: cello-based 

Label: First Terrace Records/Beacon Sound

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