Totality is the second collaborative album between Natural Information Society and Bitchin Bajas who have created together an album of chilled out relaxing synth experimentation mixed with low key jazz adornments. Produced by the great white shark Greg Norman at Electrical Audio in Chicago, for this album Natural Information Society are Joshua Abrams, Lisa Alvarado, Mikel Patrick Avery, Jason Stein. While Bitchin Bajas are Cooper Crain, Dan Quinlivan and Rob Frye.
The album opens with the near 17-minute-long shape shifting synth epic Totality, slowly emerging from your speakers like an ambient wildlife soundtrack, a drone flies over some wetlands just as dawn breaks, it almost needs David Attenborough narrating over the top of it. Tones shift as flocks of birds rise out of the bullrushes, tinkling around the edges. Meditative passages stretch out, playing into the visions you see around the Lakes and marshes. Eventually drums arrive to beat slowly like pulses, flutes flutter through the reeds.
Nothing Does Not Show uses a tabla beat with oscillating synths and flutes drawing us into a calm world, rising pulses flourish along the fairway.
Always 9 Seconds Away from my fibre broadband working again, slow bass and snare drum marches into view, alongside the deep resonating synths and reeds. The slow march towards repairs and reconnection, this would make for super frustrating hold music, but still more interesting than the actual hold music, they always claim to be 9 seconds away from answering your call, long before any jazzy elements arrive.
The album closes with Clock No Clock a slowly evolving ambient jazz piece for losing track of time and space in the soft caress of the cymbals imprinted on your mind, stretching out sylph like tones and spectral filaments. Slowly building, more elements added stretching time, birds fluttering by, the tune takes flight leaving us high, totally skied by its conclusion.
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