Holovr - Continual Unfolding (2023)

Artist: Holovr
Title: Continual Unfolding
Year Of Release: 2023
Label: Indole Records – IND21
Genre: Ambient
Quality: 16bit-44.1kHz FLAC / 24bit-44.1kHz FLAC
Total Time: 41:57
Total Size: 220 mb / 434 mb
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TracklistTitle: Continual Unfolding
Year Of Release: 2023
Label: Indole Records – IND21
Genre: Ambient
Quality: 16bit-44.1kHz FLAC / 24bit-44.1kHz FLAC
Total Time: 41:57
Total Size: 220 mb / 434 mb
WebSite: Album Preview
1. Open Inwards (06:45)
2. Dimension Archive (05:32)
3. Noesis (07:15)
4. Spectral Animation (08:43)
5. Fractal Mode (07:33)
6. Fader (06:09)
Jimmy Billingham's HOLOVR project further explores beatless synthscapes with a new 6-track long-player, recorded live on an array of hardware.
In a similar vein to 2016's Anterior Space, the 6 tracks are focused yet free, repeating yet unfolding, with glistening sequences unravelling in fractal filigree. Pristine plucks and unfurling acid lines crisscross enveloping pads and slow-release textures. Though ambient, it's also underpinned by a persistent rhythmic pulse across each of the tracks, locking in entrancing melodic cycles.
There's many of the familiar HOLOVR touchpoints (90s electronica/braindance, Berlin School synth music and new age ambience) but there's also elevated technique on display and a clarified focus on what makes these zones so special to Jimmy: the potential for melodic pattern-based electronic music to uplift, shift and ease consciousness.
Though it often sounds trite to call synth music psychedelic, there is a subtle but tangible psychedelic quality to the way these tracks delicately balance repetition and variation, and persistence and novelty, capturing a sense of aural existence continually unfolding.