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Rating: Four tracks for this Concerto No.1 titled Gravitsapa, an Ukrainian duo from Lviv, which intrigued me right from the color used to personalize their bandcamp page, a pastel green with a subliminal impact. Because, like the released work, it doesn’t seem like a conciliatory choice, yet, once you immerse yourself in its unfamiliar dimension, you begin to get acquainted with it.
The Gravitsapa draw sound modules of total/ancestral music, if we wish to use a listening parameter of a vision caught between the abstract and the concrete, which latch onto the thread of reason and lay it bare, dissecting the entire sound plot and exposing its essence. Darkness and light coexist, creating a path to the unknown.
The visceral visions produce a kind of pictorial tantra that is divided between an idealized lunar Pollock and the negative of photographs. It's as if this music enters the meshes of constructivism, I think of André Bloc’s themes, and deconstructs it in a placid dissectionist logic, therefore in slow motion, imagining spatial atmospheres in the absence of gravity.
Exploring the surfaces of the audible reveals the peculiar alienating effect, tending to make you lose your cardinal references. An adagio, or rather, pianissimo motion crossing a mysterious primordial, droning dreamcatcher, rotating in the sideral calm of the sound plot around a huge planet suspended in the void, illuminated by boundless and distant stellar systems, while the senses are doped with improvisational-toned scores reminiscent of the pioneers of electronic music (use of Polivox), but also avant-garde (use of looper).
It’s easy to ride this minimal sound continuum and really hard to get off it. Concerto No.1 completely envelops and cloaks the listener in a film, also colored pastel green, which clearly becomes the medium, the transgenic change that will allow perceiving the Gravitsapa creations at their best. Of the album, the authors say: "The album was created during the war. This album is about war". I don't know if I share their words, because the music of Concerto No.1 "23.23" transports me to other dimensions, taking me everywhere except into scenarios of war, horror, and violence; rather, it acclimatizes and refines the spirit, prompting a conscious meditative state. A small marvel is born, oozing meticulous and consonant work, with a remarkable experimental outcome.
guitar/noises/voices - Jabo Kritsky
bass/keyboards/drums/noises - Hulurlaid Dral
artwork - Jabo Kritsky
mastering - Oleh Kohut (EyeForMusic)
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