Hummm / Turbulent Mediator
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Ummm 9:27
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Mangled 8:01
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Playtime 7:23
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Reverie 11:14
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Winged 9:47
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The Island 11:48
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Lightness 10:07
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Seneath 7:45
Released January 06, 2020 on Iamgeisha Records
“Hummm” and "Turbulent Mediator" are the fourth and fifth EPs by Irish recording artist Robert Crosbie / Geisha. They are brought together here as a single release.
To call this music “electronic” is a misnomer, since much of it is made in an organic way – live instruments, played live, recorded without samplers and sequencers.
A multi-instrumentalist, Robert Crosbie uses guitars, keyboards, percussion, and live drums, to create a wall-of-sound psychedelic ambience coupled with deep dub bass and shoegaze-inspired sonic textures.
Opening track “Ummm” takes a dreamy vibraphone part and adds languid guitar and echoing drums, before a long, drifting, ambient guitar passage takes over, taking the track back full circle to its resolution.
“Mangled” is mostly guitar based, taking its cue from “A Storm in Heaven”-era Verve. Again, shoegaze guitars are to the fore, and an evocative sound picture is the result.
“Playtime” takes a gentle approach, with disjointed voices and childlike musical notes, before a dub house bass part takes the track in an unexpected direction, with reverbed bongos, bells, and drums, forming a gentle percussive backing.
“Reverie” dispenses any notion of this music being simply ‘electronica’ by being a full-on Pink Floyd inspired epic, with electric guitar solos and 70s keyboards, before a gear change bursts through with heavy bass, pounding drums, and spiralling guitars, making for climactic ending to the first EP.
“Winged” kicks off the second EP, taking a twisting guitar part and adding tapping hi hats and shakers before a long drawn out guitar part echoes back on itself almost infinitely.
“The Island” is a true epic, piecing two parts together into one enormous outpouring. It starts languidly, reminding one of Air, before it changes gear and delivers a pulsating psychedelic track with huge guitars and throbbing rhythms.
“Lightness” takes this concept further, with an unusual time signature and unusual bass part.
“Seneath” takes echoed guitar and draws upon a listless feeling to take the entire enterprise home – a real “end of the movie” feeling.
Over the course of Robert Crosbie / Geisha’s career, there have been experiments with ambient, trip hop, deep house, and glitchy soundscapes. “Hummm” and "Turbulent Mediator" represent a further extension of this experimental method to include widescreen shoegaze and an overall epic approach.
To call this music “electronic” is a misnomer, since much of it is made in an organic way – live instruments, played live, recorded without samplers and sequencers.
A multi-instrumentalist, Robert Crosbie uses guitars, keyboards, percussion, and live drums, to create a wall-of-sound psychedelic ambience coupled with deep dub bass and shoegaze-inspired sonic textures.
Opening track “Ummm” takes a dreamy vibraphone part and adds languid guitar and echoing drums, before a long, drifting, ambient guitar passage takes over, taking the track back full circle to its resolution.
“Mangled” is mostly guitar based, taking its cue from “A Storm in Heaven”-era Verve. Again, shoegaze guitars are to the fore, and an evocative sound picture is the result.
“Playtime” takes a gentle approach, with disjointed voices and childlike musical notes, before a dub house bass part takes the track in an unexpected direction, with reverbed bongos, bells, and drums, forming a gentle percussive backing.
“Reverie” dispenses any notion of this music being simply ‘electronica’ by being a full-on Pink Floyd inspired epic, with electric guitar solos and 70s keyboards, before a gear change bursts through with heavy bass, pounding drums, and spiralling guitars, making for climactic ending to the first EP.
“Winged” kicks off the second EP, taking a twisting guitar part and adding tapping hi hats and shakers before a long drawn out guitar part echoes back on itself almost infinitely.
“The Island” is a true epic, piecing two parts together into one enormous outpouring. It starts languidly, reminding one of Air, before it changes gear and delivers a pulsating psychedelic track with huge guitars and throbbing rhythms.
“Lightness” takes this concept further, with an unusual time signature and unusual bass part.
“Seneath” takes echoed guitar and draws upon a listless feeling to take the entire enterprise home – a real “end of the movie” feeling.
Over the course of Robert Crosbie / Geisha’s career, there have been experiments with ambient, trip hop, deep house, and glitchy soundscapes. “Hummm” and "Turbulent Mediator" represent a further extension of this experimental method to include widescreen shoegaze and an overall epic approach.