rsn - Perpetuity #1
Released: April 24 The latest album from German drone project rsn is a testament to his their ability to craft slow-building pieces that are both minimalistic and intricate at the same time. In usual fashion, the album is broken into two distinct parts, numbered sequentially. The first part is light and rather sparse, centering itself around a thin drone that oscillates in deliberate and almost predictable fashion as is switches between mysterious shimmer and foggy shine. The entire first movement sits in a sort of neutral area, a warm and gentle blank space that comes up to a level of minor intensity but remans sedate. It makes for a rather calm and behaving introdusction as the faint frequencies encircle one another in a slow dance. The second movement in this two piece is far more assertive in its presence. That same sense of sparseness is present here as well, at least at first. As new frequencies stack on top of one another, slowly and gradually, the intensity builds ever so ...
