Rodo - Within the Void
A tether reaching into the emptiness allows exploration and discovery beyond the cosmos. Breath air, the vast expanse around us requires this function to survive. Listening to Within the Void allows thoughts to move beyond the space around us. A conduit of warm nostalgic sounds taking listeners to the flickering thresholds of all we know. Rodo is mysteriously seductive, ambience and noise holding hands, trying to lure each other over to their side. Flirting with genres from times past and extending beauty to future generations. This is sonic love for a world needing advanced tranquility.
Within the Void uses song titles as descriptive tools for the path these sounds might take. "Black Sea of Infinity", "After the Waves" and "The Void Within" are good examples. Interestingly, if you listen to each track and are aware of the title, the description Rodo uses is uniquely appropriate. "Puncture Wound" opens up the composition and listeners are immediately arrested by a higher pitched hissing noise. Not noisy abrasive but more the sound from a field recording of sighing machinery at work.
The second to last track, "Do You Know what Fear Is?", invokes a spooky bass line with the reverberations of a lethal insect world. All sounds fused within the ambient haze. The last track, "After the Void" is a field recording farewell filled with the warm beauty of life.
Released on Already Dead Tapes and Records in an edition of one hundred. There are currently less than five physical copies remaining. Rodo Ibarra works at Indian Gold Records out of Mexicali, Mexico. There is a digital album by Rodo in their catalog worth checking out as well.
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