ContQuirky mercurial synthesiser arpeggios and clear saxophone sounds introduce »Fleeting Future«, the first album from French multi-instrumentalist and producer Pascal Bideau on the Tonal Union label. His music under the pseudonym Akusmi is influenced by Steve Reich’s repetitive minimalism, Indonesian gong and gamelan music but also by modern jazz and classical music. Bideau also works as a film director and film score composer »on the side«, which certainly explains the strong cinematic and hypnotic driving aspects on his tracks. Akusmi also draws on the Fourth World Music model developed by Jon Hassell and Brian Eno, which combines elements of ethnic music from around the world with contemporary electronic techniques. »Fleeting Future« sounds positive and powerful throughout, energetic and extremely atmospheric. Together with guest musicians such as trombonist Florian Juncker, saxophonist Ruth Velten, who works across genres, and percussionist Daniel Brandt, known from Brandt Brauer Frick, Bideau, who lives in London, succeeds in creating extremely multi-layered and flowing music full of interesting and unusual combinations of sound and style, complex rhythms and exciting wind arrangements.
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