A splinter from the family Gnod, AHRKH AKA Alex Macarte, spiders a delicate thunder here on a Bliss Waves (From The Heart Realm) in trio of tracks that meditatively pull, sparkle with a caressive light.
“Bliss Waves” certainly burrows deep like a spiralling tongue of minimalism cursively crucified on a piano repeat. A sublime smooch, shimmering like a Popol Vuh godhead tattooing the air in a rash of dissipating chords and tinkering torpor. A diaphanous dive for the senses, full of grainy sweeps and plush texturals that gently slip in and out of focus, lyrically dancing in reactive criss-cross.
A stunning first track that throws the baton to the tranquilly tapered “Haze Cascade”, a fleecy mirage that carries on the ambient richness, carving up the space in see-sawing ellipticals. Its flittering contours seriously messing with your hemispheres (in the best of ways) as the smooth gravities sycamore-scythe, cusping consciousness like amoebic figure skaters. A luminosity to lose yourself in, and the shingle rub of “Oceanic Boundlessness” rounds the experience off in a twenty-three minute finale, a Brian Eno-esque erosion, circling some vaporous shoreline. Its lapping contours are full of fragmentary chords and chorusing infinites that collapse back on themselves to feed that ever-evolving drone, punctuated by the odd glinting shard thrown in atomising slo-mo, gift-wrapped to an azured demise.Surrendering yourself to this album’s charms is like the sun bleeding through your fingers, therapeutically bleaching your troubles clean away.
-Michael Rodham-Heaps-
