Aluminia - Trypheme (CPU)

Title: Aluminia

Artist: Trypheme

Label: CPU

Cat Number: 01010011

Genre: Indefinable

1: Lava

2: FEY

3: EEDYU

4: X-Ray Mantra

5: In A Cyber Spiral

6: Cry Silent Cry

Immersive stuff this. The textures, layers and sonic shadows which envelop each composition are geometrically enhanced giving the listener a feeling that everything is in its place, but that there are still places to go. These tunes come across like a virtual, mutating jigsaw. It’s difficult to quantify but we’re leaving ourselves open to endless, unfolding permutations here. Limitless stuff with no beginning or end. ‘In A Cyber Spiral’ feels like the most cohesive piece here, but it’s an illusion; something that is also fostered by ‘EEDYU’ and the disturbing ‘X-Ray Mantra’. There are all sorts of lazy comparisons I could make, but I’ll steer clear. This is as original a release as is likely to be heard this year, hovering somewhere between the inspirational and the intangible.