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Monoceros: A Glorious Afternoon
Inrecs

Though the three-inch EP is only twenty-five minutes long, Joan Malé packs a lot of material into his latest Monoceros outing (on his own Imaginary Nonexistent Records imprint—Inrecs, for short).The eight tracks offer an encompassing and diverse portrait of his artistry, with semi-psychedelic ambient (“Capvespre”) and folktronic vignettes (“A Glorious Afternoon”) amounting to picturesque scene paintings of one kind or another.

“Intro” begins the EP in bright-eyed manner with a grandiose synth theme that paves the way for the jaunty folktronica of “Camper” where bright acoustic guitar picking and glimmering keyboard patterns snake a path through an enchanted forest (maybe the fact that Malé lives in St Martí d´Empúries, a little town in Catalonia in the north of Spain, has something to do with the music's sunny spirit). “Pizzicatto Spoon” follows with a dense amalgam of sparkling swirls and slow, crunchy beats (generated by a Commodore 64 drum machine), after which a funk groove lends “Als Núvols” a clubby feel until keyboards and bass nudge the lilting tune into a post-rock direction. With is textural array of long tones, clicks, and whirrs, “Sinus” could be something pulled from the Raster-Noton catalogue, whereas “Cells” presents four minutes of epic ambient soundscaping.

July 2010