The Thinking of the World Began Pounding In Our Ears The Moment We Hit the Shore is the unashamedly verbosely named new project helmed by the always-working Florian TM Zeisig and features a variety of players spread from the international electronic underground who Zeisig has recorded/edited/arranged/assembled over the past three or so years. The sentiment of the title is a dead giveaway for what's being worked at here, that kind of emo-ambient hybridised soundworld that's become prevalent in certain leftfield circles the past 10 years or so. Artists like more eaze have been central to that aesthetic, and you'll instantly recognise their presence here in the highly processed, auto-tuned vocals that lead a number of the tracks. Your interest in auto-tune will likely determine your overall interest in this record, and as acquired a taste as that might arguably be, there's no doubt that its use contributes a highly lysergic quality to proceedings, shifting ambi-/dream-pop songs into a neighbouring psychedelic universe that also touches on ECM style jazz and the kind of vaporous fantasyland of new age American primitive. No two ways about it, this is drugged-out music, k-holed and dissociative, and drawn along by ghost realm melodies that flip between the human and the machine. Fans of that last Jabu record, the latest Ben Vince and Voice Actor will no doubt find all sorts of connecting lines of inquiry.
FFO: more eaze, Ben Vince, Bendik Giske, Voice Actor, Jabu
