Ecotone is the latest album by Paris Music Corp the brainchild of John Andrew Paris an Austin Texas ambient musician who's moved back to Brownsville, this sounds like he hasn't visited the Station or found the boys room that still allows smoking in it. He has in the past worked with among other Austin luminaries Arthur Brown, Don Wigwam and Catastrophe Ballet. This album was recorded mixed and mastered at Tarantula studios by Andrew Paris.
The album opens with Night Pool that sounds like the ambient surface noise and ripples of the Night Pool refracted through soundboxes and synths. Sun Halo's should be listened too while flat on your back staring up at the sky trying to define the Suns Halo while drifting off. Sirens Plight could easily be on the soundtrack to a film version of Kurt Vonnegut's Sirens Of Venus, laid back and floaty synths with skittered beats drifting through the alien landscapes, that classic tale unfolding on screen.
The Way To The Sea sounds like the waters of the Rio Grande rushing by carrying the lucky few all the way, unhindered by patrol boats all the way to the Gulf Of Mexico. No Soy AI is the only song with vocals, in Spanish rapped by Ray Perez over dark hued synths and drum pattern, fighting against the perils of AI. Midnight Pad and you are ready to chill together and find some mutual connections in the shards of sound suffusing the room.
Ghost Tracks rolling through abandoned towns heading across invisible barriers. Wetlands with the pitter patter raindrop percussion, negotiating the marsh lands, while seeking a way to firmer ground. Slow Bee buzzes around drunkenly in search of a way back to the hive. Whispering Palms the merest flutter of wind creating sounds and strains of echoes of past times, when which side of the border the palms were on didn't matter.
Dark Laguna is more dancefloor oriented than most of the album, it isn't tainting Kenny in anyway, this is just the right side of ambient noise with beats to groove across the floor. Rituals is obviously hoping to be the background music to the latest TV ad campaign for Rituals cosmetics, this would take the brand into a less yummy mummy direction, adding a bit of edge to the brand.
Habitat may have gone or be under threat and mutating the sounds of his local Brownsville Habitat to make this extruded synthscape.
Underwater Escape sounds like a nature documentary recording the sounds near the Rio Grande riverbed. The Album closes with Not Leaving that could be an elegy for anyone currently under threat from ICE boldly stating they are happy to stay, carrying on living where they are, with dark percussion sounding like ominous shots, from the enemy agents of a rampant out of control administration.
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