
Solune's Convolutions EP, second HMiT Records release, transports us to the world of mid-90s Manhattan and New Jersey clubs' where spirituality and dance were intimately interconnected, and comes within the scope of some American House labels of these same years, on which it was common to find two versions of the same song on the same record. This is the case here for "Feathered Blaze", which is presented in its original version and in its dub rereading, before giving way to an atmospheric track, "Gratitude".
"Feathered Blaze", epic piece of tribal house, takes us from the first seconds into an ecstatic trance whose intensity will continue to rise with the powerful and throbbing rhythmic loops that Solune takes the time to install and develop over time. The kick is intense, the bass heavy and the percussions are hypnotic. The body cannot help starting to dance but, beyond the dance, Solune speaks to our soul. Indeed, at this tribal rhythm are super imposed multiple harmonic layers, carried by very deep chords and ethereal synth lines. The whole is made bleary by a massive use of echoes and delays which infuses a deeply dub touch into the song. Listening to the song obviously brings Ron Trent to mind, as well as Joe Claussell, Kerri Chandler or some glorious releases of labels such as Ibadan and Nite Grooves. As for the Dub Essence version of the track, it tightens on rhythm, percussions and FX, which intermingle ad infinitum to describe complex convolutions in which it is exhilarating to get lost. The closing track, "Gratitude", is a magnificent ambient piece with its long synthetic layers that come and go, its delicate tribal percussions and its aerial and heady melody.
With the Convolutions EP, Solune plunges us into a tribal and mystical atmosphere: time is suspended there at this moment when communion is total on the dancefloor, where everyone, in a collective trance, moves in unison, in a sort of urban shamanic rite.
"Feathered Blaze", epic piece of tribal house, takes us from the first seconds into an ecstatic trance whose intensity will continue to rise with the powerful and throbbing rhythmic loops that Solune takes the time to install and develop over time. The kick is intense, the bass heavy and the percussions are hypnotic. The body cannot help starting to dance but, beyond the dance, Solune speaks to our soul. Indeed, at this tribal rhythm are super imposed multiple harmonic layers, carried by very deep chords and ethereal synth lines. The whole is made bleary by a massive use of echoes and delays which infuses a deeply dub touch into the song. Listening to the song obviously brings Ron Trent to mind, as well as Joe Claussell, Kerri Chandler or some glorious releases of labels such as Ibadan and Nite Grooves. As for the Dub Essence version of the track, it tightens on rhythm, percussions and FX, which intermingle ad infinitum to describe complex convolutions in which it is exhilarating to get lost. The closing track, "Gratitude", is a magnificent ambient piece with its long synthetic layers that come and go, its delicate tribal percussions and its aerial and heady melody.
With the Convolutions EP, Solune plunges us into a tribal and mystical atmosphere: time is suspended there at this moment when communion is total on the dancefloor, where everyone, in a collective trance, moves in unison, in a sort of urban shamanic rite.
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