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SimbaSōl proposes an emotional ballad conceived to land on whatever journey the listener is on and set the table for what is to come.
In Buddhism, Saṃsāra is often defined as the endless cycle of birth, death, and rebirth. In literal terms, the Sanskrit word saṃsāra means “to flow” or “to pass through”. My current focus is on the micro level of deaths and rebirths that occur within the artist every hour of every day.
The entire album manages to provide introspection, absorbing energy and twilight light, and that closes a record that knows how to turn musical pulp into a refreshing ambrosia juice. The more the record is listened to, the more difficult it is to locate it in a specific geographical location. His music seems to never solidify, to be a flow of sounds and impressions that never seem to remain fixed in place or memory, like a perfume or a quick vision of a body in motion, until it postulates as one of the true future values of tame and lustrous electronics.
The songs that are recorded on this album show the particular way of understanding the sound of The songs that are recorded on this album show the particular way of understanding the sound of SimbaSōl, located at the opposite extreme of what is commercial, what is generic, what it works: what it does is, on the contrary, a kind of unstable magma of pulsations and glows, of melodic traces and faded textures, pursuing a serene, spiritual, almost ascetic expression. All those languages and influences from which he drew dialogue on this record, creating new, different and highly evolved sound organisms.
Located at the opposite end of the commercial, the generic, what works: what it does is, on the contrary, a kind of unstable magma of pulsations and glows, of melodic traces and blurred textures, pursuing a serene, spiritual expression, almost ascetic. All those languages and influences from which he drew dialogue on this record, creating new, different and highly evolved sound organisms.
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