Italian artist Julian Zyklus delivered his solo debut album ‘Four Dimensional Waves’ back in June this year, joining the Hush Hush Records Group. Zyklus draws on extensive experience of piano and synthesizers, as well as alternative rock, having used the former skills as a member of rock band ‘A Toys Orchestra’. Four Dimensional Waves displays vibrant creativity which often conjures a slightly unearthly beauty, and is headed by the track ‘White Hole’.
The influence of classical music seems apparent throughout his work, and it’s by means of largely unaltered samples of piano that we’re drawn into the track in question. The line between classical and modern techniques starts to blur however, as the lo-fi electronic edge that helps the conventional piano establish a pacifying atmosphere starts to take over the track. The staccato plucks of high pitched electronic that pick up around the 1:40 mark signify the shift to more powerful use of synthesizer, while maintaining a perfectly cultivated sense of delicacy.
As the song develops, samples begin to stretch, echoes are introduced, and the physical feeling of the track becomes more abstract and dreamlike. Shadows lengthen as the creative aspects of Zkylus’s skillset begin to gradually dominate the foreground.
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