Stunningly bubbly electronic pop would be the best way to describe this joyful album.
From the Mental Health Food Store Bandcamp site:
“In early February, while developing and learning to operate this mysterious new modular synthesizer “ecosystem” — these tracks engendered themselves. They are mainly improvised, and since modular synths are notoriously sensitive and unstable, especially in the hands of a noob, such that I am, they are what they are. It was all great fun to learn how to let the environment evolve and gently guide the vehicle as it drove me around the stanzas of vibration. While I started out in a very abstract free-form, anarchic & almost free jazz vein, I found imminent groove situations that reminded me of African, Thai, Balinese and Aboriginal music but as if retro-engineered into… New Totemic Encounters. The final track features a friend from India whose bansuri playing and electronic tanpura that I captured from one of his Facebook videos. It was a spontaneous long distance coincidental collaboration and it seems to be a fitting track with which to close the album. Thank you Vishwanath Pawaiya for your playing and for your updates about the Earth vibration frequency, “the note of nature” as measured by the electronic tanpura.”
