Kaminari Synthesis - The Importance of Closing Your Eyes EP
Kaminari Synthesis (Vincent Fugère, owner of netlabel Camomille) delivers some very pretty and wholly hummable ambient glitch indie-tronica ballads. At 35 minutes, the album straddles the line between EP and LP. Its 11-minute closer, “Blue Skies, Winter’s Final Cry and Other Relevant Love Stories”, is a wonderfully crafted slow-builder and plays like an understated electronica Mogwai track. Great listening; perhaps the only moment that will interrupt its induced reverie comes near the end of “To Rise Above One’s Self”, the most furiously exciting passage on the album.
The tracks are available as 192kbps MP3s and a full-album zip via the Internet Archive.
luke, there’s a cover for this album…..
hope you had a fun trip last week…..
Comment by hugo — September 19, 2005 @ 11:16 am
Thanks for the catch!
Comment by Luke — September 19, 2005 @ 7:11 pm
I wasn’t too sure about ‘another ambient - electronic’ release. Primarily ‘cos there’s too many of them and many are not…. well…. very good. This was worth the download. Very good indeed. However did anyone else find that the tracks granulated, in parts, to nothing like a bad CD jump. Track #1 thankfull to breath… from 4min 20sec onwards. I found this with 2 separate downloads. I only ask as the effect/modification is good and accurate, but the style does not suit the track….??
Comment by hugo — September 20, 2005 @ 8:17 am
I’m pretty certain the “skipping” is intentional.
I’m glad you like the album. My purpose on Free Albums Galore is to do what you’ve described; find the good albums among the (literally) thousands of crap releases out there.
Comment by Luke — September 20, 2005 @ 12:26 pm