With echoes of Björk to Tangerine Dream, the electronic music composer’s newest LP is inspired by the cyclical and fractal patterns of nature with access to and reinterpretations of the original music of the celebrated 1972 KPM 1000 series: Electrosonic, the music of Delia Derbyshire and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. It’s a very immersive and beautiful late-night listen, much of it slowly unfurling, particularly the title track, mirroring that definition of sets of alternating bands of fir trees in sequential stages of development, observed in forests on exposed mountain slopes from North America and Japan in a process of wave-regeneration following wind disturbance, and patterned vegetation. Carbon Cycle, evoking a perhaps much bigger pattern, has a heartbeat among the swirl of sounds, while of the seven tracks, Ecovocative is the most tuneful, with a simplicity and quality that might remind listeners of mid-70s Kraftwerk. But of all, Emergence in Nature is the most dynamic and life-evolving, filled with wondrous sounds, clicks, beats, patterns and complexity. Overall an album that like nature itself is at once strange and familiar, inspiring and comforting, background-filling and all-consuming, and as Delia Derbyshire revealed in 2000 to BBC sound engineer, journalist and academic Jo Hutton: “I like new things that don’t seem new . . . as though they’ve always been there.” Self-released and available via the Bandcamp link below or Hannah’s website.
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