70TU5

Filled with light of hope. This is my first impression whilst listening to "70UT5" the latest album by my progressive friend Samuel. His previous work "Outros Horizontes" is drenched in his virtual fantasia, with dreamy sound structures. On the other hand, sounds like "70UT5" makes us look at our real life and the future in its clear, rigid structural manner. Consider we should walk and live straight forward no matter what happens around us, via this creation.

"Redespertar" sounds like a soft, white cloud in the blue sky. We see the delightful sky with some gentle clouds and inhale cool clean air outside, while listening to his delicate, calm sound production. "Eerie Reflections" tosses us his young and resilient energy which he would have got from authentic rock spirits in the 70s contemporary pop / rock scene. Fuzzy bluesy electric guitar shouts completely vibrate our heart and muscle. And especially the title 'Eerie' sound vibes should be 'Reflected' into our eyes and ears. Not so complex nor innovative but supremely impressive. In this track, his heavy sound measures remind us of kinda influences by a production giant Alan Parsons.

"Komorebi" (In Japanese, means sunlight through trees) would express a ray of sunlight under such a dark circumstance, I guess. The sound texture reminds me of kinda leaning toward Japanese traditional folk or enka music full of bubbling sound effects and repetitive but dramatic atmospheric phrases fed with synthesizer plays. Sounds like he might adopt a variety of Japanese musical essence including psychedelic, folk, pop ... etc. etc. In "Die Verborgene Falle (the hidden trap)" we would be likely to get swallowed up into such an inorganic simple electronic collective. Dark, depressive, mysterious melodic repetitions tell us the current tough situation ... repetitive anxieties and tragedies all over the world. But please hang in there. The following stuff "Frischluft (fresh air)" is exactly 'fruitful Neu!". Through the track we finally get an outcome like fresh air. Simple and brilliant soundscape with cool, clean, catchy rock texture can directly be ours. The epilogue "Waning Sun" is sorta promising ambience, dominantly flooded with hopeful bright melody lines and comfortable psychedelia.

Well matured but tightly sounded, his creativity should be.