The atypical Brazilian musician Grim\u00f3rio de Abril is an artist with many talents. Across these nine very unique tracks, Abril handles synth, vocals, guitars, percussion, flute and kalimba, and it’s all executed in an unclassifiable fashion. <\/p>\n
The aptly titled \u201cOpening\u201d leads with a dreamy atmosphere of warm guitar, wordless vocals and plenty of electronic moments that make for a distinct haziness. \u201cSezao (Fever)\u201d then follows with much mystery, as layered voices and cultured percussive sounds blend for the striking mood, and \u201cGlass Shards, Pt. I\u201d continues the exploration with pretty strings and synthetic drums that are abstractly poetic. <\/p>\n
Some of the best tracks land in the middle, where the firm keys and sci-fi backdrop of \u201cLua de Lixo (Moon Of Trash)\u201d are as mesmerizing as they are creative, while \u201cA Ghost By The Window\u201d takes a more intimate route that\u2019s beat-friendly, a bit haunting and even cinematic in its meticulous use of light-versus-dark dynamics. <\/p>\n
On the back half, \u201cNavalha (Razor)\u201d carries plenty of psychedelic nods amid the swirling, ominous climate, and \u201cGlass Shards, Pt. II\u201d emits a nearly tribal feel in a spacey sort of way. \u201cOneiric Violence At The Trianon Park\u201d exits the listen, and it\u2019s a curious mashing of ambient, baroque, and experimental song craft that you\u2019re not going to hear anywhere else.<\/p>\n
A listen that certainly carries influences from South America, but is also very much in tune with America’s electronic ideas, this album demonstrates that Abril makes music for any occasion that’s aesthetically exciting, thoughtful, and maybe even perplexing. The artwork is quite eye catching, and it\u2019s all housed in a quality cassette that might irritate some with an intense disdain for that format, but it\u2019s actually quite charming for a fan of dated technology like myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":34805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[10860],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-46669","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-grimorio-de-abril","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=46669"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=46669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}