Uzu Noir | Ontelo – Invisible Labyrinth

Elektrokuutio

The free-flowing chemistry between Finnish producer and audio engineer Antti Uusimäki (Uzu Noir) and Pharaoh Overlord’s Pekka Jääskeläinen (Ontelo) is great — low-key and unscripted. Invisible Labyrinth‘s two sides seemingly to blur into one cohesive whole, each quietly teasing out the best in each other, bringing their undeniable lightness of touch to the listener.

The radiating tranquillity of “Amulet” is an immersive singular, tonally tied, horizon-wavering to this spectrum-jewelled, perfumed purr. Loosely laboured atmospherics that watercolour summer-like to dance in the gentle struck crystal-like wash of notes on “Sketch Map”. Sonics that topple into a lovely Popol Vuh solemnity.

A pillowing discharge fraying in plunging flange and oscillating oblivion. Contemplative sonics that lead to the stretchy dawn-like colours of “Orients”, an album end in brushed conversational curls, threshold hovering with pulse and reflective twists lustred in falling Rothko-esque chords.

The soft transitory magic of Invisible Labyrinth is something to treasure.

-Michael Rodham-Heaps-