Miami Vice's "Synth Colour" is the perfect vaporwave song: it makes you feel like yr consciousness is being uploaded to a supercomputer in a 90s version of "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank" and what's more vaporwave than that? The rest of the album doesn't quite live up to that because it's more instrumental hip hop, which isn't to say I don't dig instrumental hip hop, but just that the opener tricks you into thinking you'll be getting "pure" vaporwave (as if such a thing exists) and then a bunch of the other tracks sound like Knxwledge or summat - still some of the best stuff the genre has to offer, though.
and in non-vaporwave news: the opener to the Szilárd Mezei International Improvisers Ensemble's two-disk Karszt, which takes up 3/4ths of the first CD, made me think of a description I read in Jazzword (go there! this guy's a real pro, a real head, and that may be the site that gets me to redownload SLSK [after this semester's over, after this semester's over...]) about Braxton's Ghost Trance Music project(s) (which I've never heard) - it moves at a glacial pace and seems to alternate repeatedly between a long, lethargic, static even, head and long solos, but the further along it goes the more you realize that the variations in arrangements of the main theme are different every time and gradually more sections that deviate from the main two are added - it's even sprightly in places! - and it's all around a-ok. Too bad very little of the rest of the album is really worth mentioning, as fine as it is - the title track opens with piano so dissonant it sounds like the instrument is out-of-tune but mostly plods though the other highlight, "Macskák" (which means cats!), actually does sound like the titular animal, which is surely as high of a compliment as I can give a piece of music.
oh and Igor Koshkendey's solo album is not quite as good as the best Chirgilchin, but it practically is another Chirgilchin album, so defo (soul)seek that out, if'n you like sweet Tuvan soul music.
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