Genre: Ambient / Rhythmic Industrial / Glitch
01 Step 1 – Out of Balance
02 Step 2 – Down Shifting
03 Step 3 – Fountain of Flow
“This CD is dedicated to all the people who try to simplify their lives in modern times marked with materialism, business, stress and sickness”
Being active since 1989 and issuing CDs on such well-known labels as Ant-Zen, Old Europa Cafe, Apocalyptic Vision, Telepherique now appears once again to present another masterpiece released on a label called Force of Nature.
Telepherique is not just music, no matter how it is interesting or talented or both. There always seems to be a concept behind. Here comes to my mind collaboration with Flint Glass called Information Gigabyte I reviewed not so long ago. This time it is another masterpiece solely from Telepherique called Slowmotion. Nope, not Slowmotion, but rather slowmotion – and there’s a piece of certain sense in that: an album, although being divided in 8 tracks, stays one whole, smooth sound flows from track to track as if there’re no boarder, it just continues and continues. That’s why calling this album in one word without capital letters is the best way to reflect what waits for attentive listener inside the box. The spirit of simplification went through the booklet as well. There’s no an enourmous amount of object piled one on another, rather lines and small pictures that look quite harmonious within the concept of the album. 8 tracks that present the album are actually divided in three parts – steps - called Out of Balance, Down Shifting and Fountain of Flow.
The album carries something rhythmical and something ambient. Rhythms vary from slow viscous beats accompanied with noises, sounds of nature (like whales crying in the ocean) and the ones that look like high-voltage wires trembling. Also it has some mystic pre-historic, primitive, tribal (hear the drumming on the second untitled track, by the way, it made me think to Lagunamuch Community’s compilation “Deep Sea Shipping” – it also gave me the feeling of calm, as if I was standing on the sea shore, watching at the horizon drown in the waters of the sea. However, while Deep Sea Shipping has industrial atmosphere, Slowmotion is rather “natural”), lacking all the rush of nowadays life, drawn away from all the issues of modern time. There’s a certain freedom of feeling. While listening to it I remembered another album I reviewed not so long ago – Phil Von’s “Deadline Now”. Track Untitled 3 is rather a return to the contemporary world – it is anxious, through many little noises you can catch the sounds of office machines, worried human voices. And Untitled 4 is again a return to the origins, to the nature with its softness, smoothness, charming, magic component. Part 5 seems to be close to the 3rd one – again a flashback, an episode from the modern life, probably the most anxious and gloomy track on the album, a mix of human and inhuman, fast spasmodic breath of human and technoid agressive breath of mechanisms. Actually the whole rest part of the album is much more rhythmic, including the last track, where the tribal rhythm together with the sounds of nature returns. During 25 minutes one lives through the whole story he/she experienced during listening to other 7 tracks. The track becomes more ambient closer to the end and that makes it one of my fav tracks on the album: I really liked a combination of menacing ambient patterns (which sometimes made me think to Tibetan monks’ singing), oriental string instrument repeating the same tune from time to time and then that all turning more industrial from tribal, cold from mystic, chaotic, a kind of culmination and a final at the same time – all the sounds mix, now you can hear all the elements your ear caught along the album.
