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(Post title taken from a quote by Alfred North Whitehead)
We ended up listening to “NKS”, the penultimate track in Broshuda’s latest EP Outlines because we are almost slaves to strange patterns. We have never stopped listening to Radiohead’s “Pyramid Song” for that intricate and hard-to-grasp drum line. We get similar vibes from “NKS” except in a different direction.
Here, for what it’s worth, we are seemingly celebrating a living organism as it is learning a new function, be it several attempts to fly for the first time or getting out of a cocoon. Looking at its wave sequence from a distance, it is nothing but a repetitive sinusoid, that instead of diving beneath the horizontal axis, flattens for a short interval and starts all over again. It takes a bit of sharpening the imagination and mulling over the idea to find a tranquil and, at the same time, a slightly-chaotic curve that forces itself onto the fluctuations. You are no stranger to serenity and chaos kissing if you have ever given Cosmogramma by Flying Lotus a spin. Broshuda cooks a different variation of this sonic rush with every strike that brings the outcome an element of surprise.
This 10-track work of glambient (or are we allowed to say even occasionally post-wonk?) was released in November 2015 via Sonic Router records. In the light of day, Broshuda does visual and electroacoustic research as well as graphic design. It leaves no trace of wonder how he is good at spraying math all over his canvas.
