Description
West London出身のKessoncodaは、ドラマーのTom Sunneyとキーボード奏者のFilip Sowaによるデュオ。アコースティックとエレクトロニカの狭間で揺るがないサウンドを展開している。メロディックなオスティナートのピアノと安定したドラムが特徴で、彼らはロック、エレクトロニカ、アンビエント、ブレイクビート、映画のサウンドトラックなど幅広い音楽から影響を受けている。SquarepusherやRadiohead、Clarkといったアーティストもインスピレーション源だ。Kessoncodaのサウンドは、Tomの庭にある小さなスタジオで生まれた。
彼らの音楽は、GoGo PenguinやPortico Quartetなど、Gondwana Recordsのアーティストたち同様に、シネマティックな要素を持つ。物語のように展開し、異なるテーマやムードを通じて流動する強弱のダイナミズムが、感動的なクライマックスへと導く。
A1. The Sum Of All The Parts
A2. Greyscale
A3. KTO
A4. Hammers
A5. Talk To Me I'm Sleeping
B1. Spaceliminal
B2. Dreambend
B3. X Is Closer To A
B4. Reverie
B5. Amaya
West London’s Kessoncoda are the duo of drummer Tom Sunney and keyboardist Filip Sowa. Standing firm between acoustic tradition and electronica, Kessoncoda is founded on a unique blend of melodic ostinato-laced piano and unwavering drums. Drawing on their array of musical interests, Fil and Tom take influence from rock, electronica, ambient, breakbeat and soundtracks for film and artists such as Squarepusher, Radiohead and Clark all hot-housed in their unique studio set-up, a shed at the bottom of Tom’s garden. They’re developing a new vision of jazz revolutionized by lulling dance music.
Like former and present Gondwana Records label mates such as GoGo Penguin and Portico Quartet there’s something strongly cinematic about Kessoncoda’s music, like a narrative arc which unfolds through different themes and moods, with an ebb-and-flow of intensity, as breath-taking swells of melody burst into being, eventually to resolve in a wondrous climax.
There’s also a deliberate undercurrent of post Covid unease which is encapsulated in the title Outerstate. “this feeling of being within a group of friends, and you're chatting, and you’re physically there but mentally you're not at all – you're somewhere else, a really weird state of being.”
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