PLASMA

My first review of this Swiss minimalist jazz rock group. The album contains elements of Zeuhl tropes - mainly an eerie ambience and the lyricless scatty vocal style, in five atmospheric tracks that do quite a lot with very little instrumentation, almost linking to ambient / post rock styles as well as jazz. Much of the atmosphere is built by subtle changes in the vocal style, going from floaty harmonies to harsher more primal sounds (Sessapinae being a clear example), and irregular time signatures (particularly the last few minutes of the album!). Very accessible way of getting into some of the less accessible (if you catch my drift) areas of prog related genres.