Review of Sunao Inami's "an impulse of acoustic"

["Bernhard Wagner" <loopdelightml@nosuch.biz>]

For those of you following Sunao Inami's work and newcomers, this will be a
particularly enjoyable slab of audible time:


"An Impulse of Acoustic", released March of this year 2005.
http://www.cavestudio.com/electr-ohm/index_E.html#An_Impulse_of_Acoustic

All songs written by Sunao Inami, with additional musicians:
  Luca Formentini (processed guitars)
  Slacknote (Bass & Buzz)
  Ian Burgers (Vocal Acrobatics)

According to the description, NI Reaktor 4, Absynth,
Ableton Live4, and Waldorf synthesizers were used.


Warning: Plot spolier ahead!

The first track "Open" seduces slowly into the groove which towards the end
turns into a cut-up beat of track 2 "Urchin", of which the mp3 excerpt on
the CD's website made me order it in the first place (Little did I know 
what
else lay in store for me...).

Like a delicate meal the exquisit courses are presented with a lot of
understatement and a wicked sense of humour.
One by one the ingredients are revealed, each of them   gems in their own
right, blending into a tasty entirety.

Quarantine, track 3, picks up the concept of track 2 but adds a lot of
spaciousness and cross-panning. A break around 5 minutes shakes you up 
again
with the very same beat that first lulled you into the REM phase ...
Track 4 "Denomination", with 21:26 the longest track, slowly morphs from
voices reminiscent of overtone singing ("vocal acrobatics" ?) to a subtle
conglomerate of sounds... Veeeerryyy sssloooowww... This track also 
presents
us with the first encounter of Slacknote's Bass & Buzz (I believe).
Track 5 "Rectifier": transition from an atmospheric, airy phase to an 
angry,
thumping downtempo cut up frenzy
Track 6 "Convolution" transports us back to more contemplative territory
underlayed with a threatening downtempo pulse
Track 7 "Precision" picks up the downtempo beat only to surreptitiously
reveal the upbeat tempo hidden underneath
Track 8 "Close" serenely seals the package if it weren't for Track 9 
"Urchin
(Divide Edit)" that slipped through again


>From start to end, "An Impulse of Acoustic" is an atmospherically dense
adventure and a sensual, almost culinary experience.
The coherence of the album as a whole is underpinned by the seamless
transition between the 9 tracks, which total to a generous whopping 68
minutes !

Ok, no lunch today, but another scoop of "An Impulse of Acoustic",
mmmmmhhh....

Bernhard
http://looop.biz