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Danielle Nia reveals what other Electronic Musicians have missed. Her A New Light (43:48) arouses one out of their daily routine, evoking what it feels like to be a human living richly and fully engaged with our world. Thrumming and humming with electricity its eight inventions intend to open ears, move emotions and stir thoughts. From warped currents and magnificent melancholy terrain to deeper dreams and furies, the motions of the mind show through. Adrift and alive shifts in sonic momentum and direction energize this collection in an emphasis of the interior realm. Wherever A New Light beams in sunlit harmonies, a charged mass of unexpected gestures, signals and sparks provide a change to the chill. While sequencer lines echo and motor smartly the pleasing arrangements of texture, timbre and tone wind out and recoil, expanding from soothing sky sighs and obedient motoring pulse to synth-sonic storm structures spinning surely dark and light. Fluttering and unstable, then firm and true A New Light aspires to the ideals of melody, harmony and aural invention - amidst a sense of outward motion both heard and felt.
- Chuck van Zyl/STAR'S END 31 July 2025 |
