Myths of the Near Future (part three)
If you could plot ambient music, improvisational jazz and pan-cultural world beat on some sort of graph, Mo Boma would be the point where all three lines intersect. "Myths of the Near Future" follows the Mo Boma tradition of creating richly textured, evocative soundscapes that manage to incorporate traditional instrumentation - albeit fleetingly - without bothering with traditional song structure. This is about as far from verse/chorus/verse as you can be while staying on the same map.
It's a very organic sound.
From the first track, "Water Baka", you'll get the feeling that
you're outside (the "insect noises" help), standing in the middle
of some completely foreign yet unthreatening space. These "Myths"
are also very much tales of the night - a night-time in an intangible, vibrant
Eastern/Asian city rich with warm winds, tantalizing scents and sensuous pleasures.
"The Crystal World", with its
voices-turned-to-wind, creates the illusion of a massive place far beyond
human comprehension, alien yet full of soothing eurithmy. "Memories of
the Space Age" offers a musical adaptation of tribal culture to the high-tech
present through a blending of style and rhythm, while the drum-driven "Sannin
Bayashi" (which is curiously similar to some of the incidental music
from Diablo) hints at further jungle-bound mysteries. "Three Beaches"
offers a trio of Harold Budd-like sonic meditations, related but distinct.
"Myths ..."
is an amazing amalgam of sound, vision and palpable emotion.
Imagine a musical collision of past, present and future with times that
never were, like an ancient city full of shiny new computers. There are
many treasures to be found here.
GZ, splendidzine.com
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