Brian Weza - Fizzles
Released: November 21 The first solo album from composer Brian Weza, Fizzles is by its nature and sound a deeply reflective and meditative album. Borrowing inspiration from those cheap new age tapes that littered bargain stores across the country, Weza takes his personally cultivated collection of atmospheric tape loops and creates a series of slow moving pastiches that evoke feelings of serenity, contemplation, and peace. It opens up with “Sensurround,” which stands out as one of the more ethereal sounding pieces on the album and then moves into a more directly meditative piece titled “The Way Out Is In.” This second piece is where things start to take an interesting turn as the slowly evolving bits of tonal percussion emanate a certain spiritual element, allowing the listener a moment to gather thoughts and process them while the soft tones carry on. It is at this point were Weza’s ethos of actively engaging with the media outside of our anxiety inducing blue-hued screens really...
