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Rasmus Rasmussen (Aerosol, Causa Sui) and Keith Canisius present another delightful set of Astral TV tracks with Travelling The Circuits. Since their debut album, Chrystal Shores from 2017 (EPR 042LP), the Copenhagen-based duo have refined and perfected their approach to making semi-improvised synthesizer music. Musically it doesn't get much more pure than this. From their vast assemblage of synthesizers -- that is, vintage, modern, digital, analog, and modular synthesizers -- the two producers are squeezing the finest sonic essence, for your neural pleasure. Forget about song structures and leads -- it's not that kind of album. Listening to Travelling The Circuits is like floating on an electronic river through a slowly changing scenery. There's really no story here, and it's not about the destination. It's about colors -- lots of colors. And the tactile beauty of sounds and patterns, filters slowly opening and closing, letting your senses tickle by a unique 80hz oscillation that only a wood paneled analog synth from the early 1980s can produce. Travelling The Circuits is a true auditory delight.
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EPR 042LP
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Astral TV is a new project from Causa Sui synth- and electronics-wiz Rasmus Rasmussen and fellow inner-space traveler Keith Canisius. On Chrystal Shores, they create fluctuating aural landscapes, ranging from subtle and earthy, to celestial and downright paranormal. Inspired in part by classic synth-scores, vintage European "kosmische", and modern drone, the duo has created the soundtrack for a heady, sonic trip. Like with the best new age music, these sounds can provide solace and regenerative energies in the listener, but ultimately the moods the duo creates are too open and ambiguous to be neatly categorized. The bright analog synths and delicate Stratocaster notes occasionally conjures images of rushing water, slowly passing cumulus and weightless, orbiting satellites. But there are more mysterious undercurrents in this music as well, periodically pulling it into peculiar, hypnagogic realms where ghostly digital presences awake. Chrystal Shores is awash in layers of tonal perfection, and while it constantly evolves, there's a unified feel to each of its gorgeous vinyl sides.
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