IKARUS: MOSAISMIC

IKARUS: MOSAISMIC
RON 022, 2019

MERIDIAN           7:40
OUMUAMUA        5:46
AIKO                     8:04
ALIGULIN             5:23
IKENOPHOBIA     5:15
SUBZERO            5:58
MONDRIAN          3:09
IRIDIUM                2:20
CIRRUS                5:45

Anna Hirsch, vocals
Andreas Lareida, vocals
Lucca Fries, piano
Mo Meyer, bass
Ramón Oliveras, drums,compositions
Produced by Ramón Oliveras and Nik Bärtsch

MOSAISMIC is a record of beautiful contrasts. It’s minimal and austere formally, yet rhapsodic in effect. It invokes organic forms and then juxtaposes them with percussive renditions of angular spaces as elicited by a modern, urban, architectural sprawl. It’s quiet and spacious, at times eruptive and dense. From a compositional point of view the songs have a tendency towards straightforward, linear melodies –written against each other. As they evolve, they perpetually produce new harmonic and rhythmic relationships. The effect is an ever-shifting sound mosaic, a sonic mobile of sorts.