{"product_id":"nueen-diagrams-of-thought","title":"Nueen - Diagrams of Thought","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormat: LP\u003cbr\u003eCatalogue No.: BALMAT04\u003cbr\u003eRelease Date: 28 Oct 2022\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Experimental\/Electronic\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. To Eve\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2. Lev\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e3. Sonno\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e4. Vig Ase\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e5. Mett\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e6. Let Me Be Gone For a While\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e7. Dome\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e8. Veta \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e9. Maxima\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e10. 4U\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor Balmat’s fourth release, we turn our attention close to home: to the Mallorca-born, Barcelona-\u003cbr\u003ebased artist Nueen, aka Nacho Pezzati.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNueen has been developing his highly personal style of blissfully Balearic ambient over the past few\u003cbr\u003eyears, with releases on labels like Quiet Time Tapes and Good Morning Tapes. On Diagrams of\u003cbr\u003eThought, he explores new depths in his sound. His atmospheres remain bucolic, butthere’s a\u003cbr\u003edisturbance at work, a hint of uncertainty swirling beneath seemingly placid pads.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile Diagrams of Thought retains the ambient (or at least ambient-adjacent) focus of all Balmat’s\u003cbr\u003ereleases so far, the album also marks new frontiers for the label; the album’s first half is graceful and\u003cbr\u003elargely beatless, but the mood grows murkier with the foggy drones of “Dome” and the intimations of\u003cbr\u003eliquid drum ’n’ bass on “Maxima”; “Veta,” meanwhile, might just represent the most forceful rhythm to\u003cbr\u003eappear on a Balmat release yet. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDespite the album’s considerable range of moods, tones, and textures, it’s all tied together by a\u003cbr\u003esingular preoccupation, says Nueen: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Lately, I’ve become conscious of my fascination for the notion of the break, on a conceptual\u003cbr\u003eand musical level. What’s temporary and what’s permanent. Thinking and making out of what isn’t\u003cbr\u003ethere, yet is. Some people would call it silence, but it could also be a skip of the needle, an ellipsis.\u003cbr\u003eSomething very basic—or Basic Channelesque. A set of sounds and silences, structuring just a hint\u003cbr\u003eof rhythm. Sounds that become silences, and silences that become sounds. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe other day, I was saying to someone that for me, the sound of electric current running through the\u003cbr\u003epower lines above the train tracks is the most ambient sound there is. That infinity in which you never\u003cbr\u003equite grasp all the harmonics and reverberations. It’s a form of time detained or expanded. Recently,\u003cbr\u003eI’ve been rereading Morton Feldman—you can tell, right? Vertical time, the silence that sounds. A\u003cbr\u003esort of sacredness. My mind is blown every time I walk into a church, for whatever that’s worth.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Balmat","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41934392131740,"sku":"BALMAT04","price":21.58,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0130\/8714\/6043\/products\/unnamed_1_dfdc098b-b328-4786-8e1a-de5749a4bc3a.jpg?v=1662737575","url":"https:\/\/www.horizonsmusic.co.uk\/products\/nueen-diagrams-of-thought","provider":"Horizons Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}