In a seemingly countless circulation of GAN animation, artist Birk Nygaard guides us by means of a consistently shifting procession of painterly digital imagery, making seen the atmospheric kosmische of producer André Bratten.
On Image Music producer André Bratten eschews the darker parts of his earlier releases to delve deeper into the cosmic textures he has explored all through his profession. Focusing much less on style than on temper, Image Music sees the musician combining paired again strings, plaintive keys, gauzy synthesis and delicate fragments of discipline recording to creates essentially the most melodic and transcendent sounds of his profession. Leaning into the atmospheric kosmische Bratten has tapped into for Image Music, artist Birk Nygaard employs GAN animation to convey the album’s 13 tracks to life, making a seemingly countless circulation of regularly shifting imagery. Heavenly vistas marked with glinting cliff faces and towering nude worshippers soften into pastoral idylls populated with geodesic domes and aged {couples}. Alien landscapes pocked with emerald cities and historic monoliths morph into radioactive timber beset with bioluminescent spores.
As we’re introduced deeper into the painted world of Image Music, the album’s escapist tendencies turn out to be totally realised. Recorded throughout the isolation of a number of lockdowns and impressed partly by a reappraisal of what constitutes ‘regular life, in addition to the start of his second baby, Image Music is designed to conjure illustrated worlds to slide into, an impact delivered to surreal life by Nygaard. Inconceivable figures inhabit inconceivable locations, speculative creatures perch upon speculative shapes, eerie of their algorithmic plausibility. Because the album closes out with the reverb-heavy piano of ‘Night’, the scene resolves into a picture a lot nearer to house, a shady woodland strewn with wild flowers, a poignant rural coda in counterpoint to a sprawling cosmic dream.
Image Music is out now, on Smalltown Supersound. You’ll find André Bratten on Instagram and Bandcamp. For extra details about Birk Nygaard and his work, you will discover him on Instagram and go to his web site.
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