PREMIERE : Blendreed - Ah Lilac Omen

Les Yeux Orange

French saxophonist Musina Ebobissé unveils ‘Armaun’, his third release under the Blendreed moniker. Armaun is Ambient Resistance Music Against Urban Noise, taking a stand against the interference of invasive irritants with sublime slow-motion music. It is four pieces evoke an ecstatic peace within, allowing both artist and listener to breathe deeply. As the compositions unfold, each exhalation resonates at the frequency of the human mind in repose. Layers of treated and reverberant saxophone fuse into a hypnagogic whole - the space between sleep and awake - as elongated melodies interact with their own fragmented and transformed echoes. In a semi dream state, existence is experienced at a languid pace, as each phrase decays into a haze of cross currents. If ‘Armaun’ recalls the fourth world music of Jon Hassell and Eno, it equally finds oblique kinship with André 3000’s New Blue Sun. Likewise, it shares essential DNA with vaporwave and the tape-loop experiments of Terry Riley. Conceived as a confluence of acoustic and electronic elements, Blendreed explores the intersection of jazz, ambient, post-rock, and the experimental. This is work of exquisite beauty with a direct function. It provides an antidote to the bombardment of our senses. After unhooking your mind from temporal entanglements, ‘Armaun’ will absorb your soul.