You have to love artists who are willing to push their own creative boundaries. Far too many people have a defined idea of who they are and the music they make and stay very much in their sonic self-assigned lane. Which is why I admire artists like Luke Tangerine and their willingness to follow their musical urges down all sorts of untrodden sonic alleys and musical paths.
Although he comes from a world of electronic creations and digital manipulations, he proves that it is a genre, and genre is perhaps too confining a word, that is limited only by the artist’s imagination. So far, he has given us hi-energy dancefloor anthems and more sophisticated, pop-infused tunes, chilled clubland beats and solid groovers. And now, he offers us something different again.
Letter From A Non-Existent City is an ambient meander through the titular, imagined realm. A slow-paced weave of sonic strands, gentle cascades of piano, delicate beats and warm, ambient washes of sound that perfectly evokes the feeling of aimless, wide-eyed exploration of the urban exotic.
And, as is often the case, the accompanying video helps underline the point, so perfectly, a visualisation of that slow meander through the Day-Glo painted and graffitied streets that the music is suggesting.
Taken from a forthcoming album called Urban Echoes, this is just one of a suite of sounds that will follow other parallel, imagined urban explorations. Now, that sounds like an intriguing prospect.
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