Like his first (Lost Horizons), new release Stult combines synths and electronics with real-world instruments and sounds.

At times aggressive, brooding, dramatic, at others drifting and contemplative, Stult experiments with splicing, looping, noise and other non-harmonic sound sources, while remaining firmly grounded in melody.

During the writing process, two things were ever-present in the room: live International Space Station webcam feeds of the Earth from above; and 24-hour rolling TV news coverage from around the globe.

And these two visual sources became the main sources of inspiration for the album.

Something of the juxtaposition between these two things - the tranquillity of floating weightlessly in endless, cycling orbit, set against the tension, conflict and chaos sparking and twitching continuously on the surface below - is ingrained in the skin of the music of Stult.

The music shifts restlessly between the two moods, at times drifting and detached (Tranq, Orbit), at others frenetic and threatening (Fission, Transmit), and often combining both sensations at once (Fusion, Culma).

1. Fission
2. Stult
3. Terra
4. Contra
5. Tranq
6. Orbit
7. Divide
8. Transmit
9. Fusion
10. Culma

Listen to: the entire album.

Release date: 03/27/2015
Mike McGuill lives in London England

Tagged as: Electronica, Other, Experimental Electronic, Hard Electronic

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