With handmade tracks, the New York artist imbibes minimalism and ambience with strange fiction

The producer behind the experimental IDM project ‘Cassilda and Carcosa’ resides in Brooklyn. They take their namesake from the writings of Robert W. Chambers, a prolific author concerned with the supernatural. The science fiction of Chambers ripples through the work of Cassilda and Carcosa, igniting a desire to experiment, and bringing to life new worlds that flicker through malleable genres like ambient, new age, drone and minimalism.

Parallel to Cassilda and Carcosa is this artist’s career as a software engineer, an inevitably technological environment from which electronica can still provide an escape, if approached with the right perspective.

Circumventing a conventional digital audio workstation (DAW) entirely, Cassilda and Carcosa composed their 2020 album ‘Transformers, Transistors, and Tape’ using a host of analog mixers, hardware synthesizers, sequencers and guitar pedals, directly recorded to tape.

The eight track album released on Ingrown Records, the Virginia based imprint who welcome creators of new age psychedelia. The music contained within the album is tied to minimal but club worthy beats, which generate weird, evasive melodies. The sound is alien at times but consistently enjoyable listening, with acid squelches and electronic pulses falling in a pattern before you. The closing track ‘Cloudwaves’ leaves a more ambient taste however, with synth rolling over sonar blinks.

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