Reclusive drum'n'bass/downtempo artist & producer breath hails from Columbus, Ohio and has been running sounds underground for some time. His music is a rich mix between d'n'b's characteristic speed and sweeping ideas and sounds that smooth out the edges so that the music can move the feet as well as the mind a bit, telling stories along the way with a heavy sense of jazz and natural instrumentation (pianos, rhodes, drum sets).
Excerpts from an interview:
About character:
"I got tired of hearing so much of what is otherwise a great musical form wallow in its own pretensions. Where was the fun? Why does every song out now drone on for a minute exactly before a beat comes in when it's not even a dance record? I wanted to get back to the roots and self-awareness of it and bring some character and stories back to it. When you listen to one of my songs I want you to know that I did it and find yourself in it."
About space:
"I wanted to create music you could be affected by. With instrumental music, this can be really easy, since most of the effect that music has on people starts with tone. I can play you the types of rhythms that you enjoy dancing to in a club with African instruments and it'll do nothing for you without good tone. So I wanted to create a middle tone that ran through the songs that sort of tranced you out once you got past the banging; a tone that bounced between the space in your ears a bit. That's where the storytelling lies."
Check out the artist's website:
http://www.blackair.orgTrack List:
1. Gasp (jazz: Who's Your Daddy?)
2. Exhale
3. Inhale
4. Sigh
5. Blowing Cilium
6. Spent
7. Open
8. Whisper
9. In/out
10. Circular Respiration
11. Baited Breath
12. Wind of Razors (2.1)
13. Undertow
14. Baby's Breath
15. Sub-zero
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