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<a href="spotify:artist:34uth6SLb5I9CKoCBMqDPS" data-name="Akusmi">Akusmi</a> is the new project moniker of French-born, London based composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer Pascal Bideau, who signs to the new Tonal Union imprint for the release of his album <a href="spotify:album:33yYg5rJepJZ2IMXJoRs5d" data-name="Fleeting Future">Fleeting Future</a> (2022). With its hallucinatory, genre-defying blend of minimalism, cosmic jazz and Fourth World influences, and in its quest for optimism in the face of unknown and limitless possibility. ‘Fleeting Future’ stands apart as an inventive and inspirational debut.
Follow and listen to my playlist updates – <a href="spotify:playlist:3ClNi3bJ2HV23hhlys2ZAC" data-name="Akusmi - Divine Moments of Truth">Akusmi - Divine Moments of Truth</a>
Listen to <a href="spotify:album:5CUwfyCVyOuJM2DZuHez5v" data-name="Longing for Tomorrow (Brandt Brauer Frick Remix)">Longing for Tomorrow (Brandt Brauer Frick Remix)</a>
The creation of the album’s richly colourful and multi-layered sound world was originally inspired by Bideau’s journey to Indonesia, where he immersed himself in traditional Gamelan and gong music. Many of the themes, motifs and melodies on ‘Fleeting Future’ seed from the ‘Slendro’ scale, one of the essential tuning systems used in Gamelan. However it is not musical scales, but scales as in the size or extent of things that most fascinates Bideau, specifically he explains; “the compelling way things dramatically change when you shift from any given scale to another.”
Akusmi — <a href="spotify:album:33yYg5rJepJZ2IMXJoRs5d" data-name="Fleeting Future">Fleeting Future</a> is out now on the Tonal Union label imprint — check out the label profile here for playlists: https://spoti.fi/3EoxouE
Follow and listen to my playlist updates – <a href="spotify:playlist:3ClNi3bJ2HV23hhlys2ZAC" data-name="Akusmi - Divine Moments of Truth">Akusmi - Divine Moments of Truth</a>
Listen to <a href="spotify:album:5CUwfyCVyOuJM2DZuHez5v" data-name="Longing for Tomorrow (Brandt Brauer Frick Remix)">Longing for Tomorrow (Brandt Brauer Frick Remix)</a>
The creation of the album’s richly colourful and multi-layered sound world was originally inspired by Bideau’s journey to Indonesia, where he immersed himself in traditional Gamelan and gong music. Many of the themes, motifs and melodies on ‘Fleeting Future’ seed from the ‘Slendro’ scale, one of the essential tuning systems used in Gamelan. However it is not musical scales, but scales as in the size or extent of things that most fascinates Bideau, specifically he explains; “the compelling way things dramatically change when you shift from any given scale to another.”
Akusmi — <a href="spotify:album:33yYg5rJepJZ2IMXJoRs5d" data-name="Fleeting Future">Fleeting Future</a> is out now on the Tonal Union label imprint — check out the label profile here for playlists: https://spoti.fi/3EoxouE
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