Oh, be cursed, you cruel, damn prolific artists with your limited "100 copies - no represse" releases!
I'm still enjoying this one very much though, even despite this package teaching me that I have to drive twenty-three kilometers to pick up packages coming from outside of the EU now. And of course still pay six Euro for this formidable service...
IVAN THE TOLERABLE - Proust, Quartering (orange vinyl LP) (2025)
Luckily multi-instrumentalist Oli Heffernan offers just the right music on this signal-orange record wrapped inside a Japanese newspaper to calm one down after annoyances like that.
Aided by Mees Siderius on drums, percussions and the secret MVP instrument vibraphone, he really leans into the calmingly hypnotizing side of of his work with four slowly evolving tracks right in the middle of an imaginable triangle between Spiritual Jazz, half-Electronic Ambient Krautrock and a swappable corner, which changes its property for each composition. Most obvious are the Asian Folk melody patterns in "Consciousness", which towards the end by the way also features one of the greatest unexpected transitions since The Comet is Coming's "The Seven Planetary Heavens".
If there's one thing you can count on, no matter where Ivan The Tolerable takes us, it's the immensly tasteful palette and layering of sounds. The synths and guitars just flow into each other so warm and satisfying, while the smooth bass super subtly holds it all together.
"Proust, Quartering" is a mild yet potent and inspiring intoxication of the senses.
With a playing time of fifty minutes, the record could hardly be more physically packed. There's just as little of a run-out groove as there's a chance for boredom during this bubblingly creative, yet actually still somehow restrained and unpretentious music. If we were tier-listing Heffernan's Tolerable oeuvre, I'd certainly put it at least in B, probably rather A vicinity. Wonderful!
Aided by Mees Siderius on drums, percussions and the secret MVP instrument vibraphone, he really leans into the calmingly hypnotizing side of of his work with four slowly evolving tracks right in the middle of an imaginable triangle between Spiritual Jazz, half-Electronic Ambient Krautrock and a swappable corner, which changes its property for each composition. Most obvious are the Asian Folk melody patterns in "Consciousness", which towards the end by the way also features one of the greatest unexpected transitions since The Comet is Coming's "The Seven Planetary Heavens".
If there's one thing you can count on, no matter where Ivan The Tolerable takes us, it's the immensly tasteful palette and layering of sounds. The synths and guitars just flow into each other so warm and satisfying, while the smooth bass super subtly holds it all together.
"Proust, Quartering" is a mild yet potent and inspiring intoxication of the senses.
With a playing time of fifty minutes, the record could hardly be more physically packed. There's just as little of a run-out groove as there's a chance for boredom during this bubblingly creative, yet actually still somehow restrained and unpretentious music. If we were tier-listing Heffernan's Tolerable oeuvre, I'd certainly put it at least in B, probably rather A vicinity. Wonderful!
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