Transmutation is the latest album by Margate based Coastal electronaut Tim Horne who recorded the albums solo using Analog Synths, acoustic instruments and field recordings, the album was mixed and mastered by Thomas Farmer.
The album opens with Requiem that adds some classic interference sounds to the slow thoughtful classically minded music, a bed of strings and deep bass tones with horns wallowing in misery before the synths wash through like an out of control digital ringtone.
Halcyon sits us down by the seashore, the waters lapping over our feet, the hum of a nearby generator gently buzzes, a flute wafts across the water towards us delicately invoking a deep sense of wellbeing and calm as the music rises.
Biota builds around a long synth tone and gentle bells, feeling like music to meditate too while sitting in the lotus position. An Ocean Apart separated by the fuzzy undertow of static set against the beauty of the flute and synths opening new possibilities for a life no longer together. Volta gently floats by with chilled sensations and a muted topography.
Folie A Deux has birds twittering in the background while the synths create a relaxed sensation of lying back in a field gazing at the birds flying by and is yet another tune this year to include sampled birdsong and has clusters of wonderment. Ascension starts with deep floor vibrating bass tones with an almost church organ, with synthesized woodsticks percussion manipulated to sound like a marble falling through sticks.
The album closes with Metamorphosis that slowly tracks K's massive comedown from that late night binge, he sits at his parents breakfast table feeling like a cockroach, all sense of normality evaporating, the out of space beats stir something deep within him, he rebels against the strictures of the parental home, starting dancing with florid movements, displaying his opposition to ever working in the family shop, when he can live a free existence elsewhere. This eventually emerges into a funky pulsating almost cartoonish fantasia.
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