“Coral Blossom” is a beautiful 14-minute long dream through dramatic piano chords and electronic arpeggios that ripple like water. Taken from ‘Surface Currents’, the beautiful new ambient album by the sonic explorer, producer, filmmaker and multi-instrumentalist known as Kutiman. 

With ‘Surface Currents’, Kutiman intended to create “music for doing things”, a tool to assist his own visual work. However, his experiments with ambient atmospherics and modular experiments produced a beautiful and calming three-part suite that’s perfect for nothing to as well. The tranquility of Kutiman’s isolated life in the Negev Desert comes through as much as the sense of water. 

Kutiman describes himself as having a “compulsion to create”, and he challenged himself to deliver a range of projects over the course of a year, each tapping into a different vein of his musical world. Soaking up the sounds of classical Indian ragas, Terry Riley and William Basinksi, particularly his ‘Water Music’ album, Kutiman was inspired to create his own take on ambient music, in the process, discovering that making long and slow improvisations with one instrument at a time was just as therapeutic. 

Hit the Bandcamp link below to preview and order the digital album, ‘Surface Currents’, released this coming Friday, April 2nd.

Surface Currents

Exclusive Premiere: Kutiman "Coral Blossom" (Forthcoming on Siyal Music)

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Open

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Pre-order (World)
LP/CD/Digital: bit.ly/2qoP6Xo
www.wonderwheelrecordings.com

Pre-order (Italy)
LP/CD: latempesta.bigcartel.com
Digital: apple.co/2qYKWsj
www.latempesta.org/international

Populous is Andrea Mangia, a producer hailing from Lecce, a small city on the heel of Italy's boot. In 2003, he made his first jaunt into the music world with the album Quipo (via Morr Music). In 2005 he released Queue For Love, influenced by his reggae/hip-hop-infused surroundings (Lecce is known as Italy's Jamaica, as reggae and dancehall are extremely popular there) and in 2008 he released Drawn in Basic. Both albums were widely received by international critics, earning him a spot on the global music map. He became known for the way he seamlessly blends digital sounds with the analog warmth of soul/hip-hop/whatever else he's influenced by at the time.

Azulejos, his forthcoming release, has a South American tinge to it (and is even partly in Spanish). He moved to Lisbon, Portugal to start work on the album bringing with him only a laptop, a small MIDI keyboard, and a microphone. "Lisbon became both my studio and my muse," he says. He wandered the city collecting field recordings— from trams to people singing on street corners. He sifted through flea markets for records to use for sampling (exclusively Portuguese and South American). Populous describes Lisbon as a city 'halfway between South American soul and European modernity, African in some aspects, and dramatically melancholic." He channeled these poignant fusions into Azulejos, named for the typical tiled facades in Portugal— simultaneously bright and decaying. The album features collaborations with Nina Miranda of Smoke City and Ela Minus, among others. It's a love letter to Lisbon, and a dreamy quilt of sounds he both grew up with and heard for the first time during his influential stay in Portugal.

Azulejos

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Populous - Alfama

'Open' Album: https://kutiman.lnk.to/Open

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