For this album it’s worth having your head as free as possible. The US-American-Mexican producer Delia Beatriz alias Debit had recommended herself on her debut »Animus« with a loose juxtaposition of ambient and free rumbling beat for more open-minded clubs. Dancing, however, is no longer an issue on »The Long Count«, the rhythm track is left out this time. To speak of pure ambient, however, would not fit the cause, string quartets are not ambient, after all, just because they do without drums. Conceptually, however, this music is always set up. Ancient Mayan instruments served as models and were reconstructed by Debit in digital form. In order to keep an open mind while listening, it is probably best, if not already done, not to find out any more about which instruments exactly are meant. The less one knows about the background, the stranger »The Long Count« sounds in any case. And this sound-magical effect might well have been in Debit’s interest. The tracks, which are merely titled after different days and nights, create spaces that may seem eerie at first contact. When you venture further into them, however, they prove to be open in their own unique way. What more can you want from music?
Scott Gordon
Metals
Diagonal