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- Summary: Thisi is the three-track [four, if including the 43-plus-minute bonus track "Vigil" on CD and digital versions] synth release for the electronic artist.
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- Record Label: Stones Throw
- Genre(s): Electronic, Experimental, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Experimental Rock
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Jul 8, 2014Ishi may be a lullaby, calling Ishi’s and Gengras’ friends to rest, but ultimately it imparts a peace to all who oscillate within the flux of the universe.
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The WireJul 21, 2014Gengras's sublime drones--layers and layers of modular synth--evoke the spectacle and tragic history of his native California's wilderness. [Jun 2014, p.62]
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Jul 8, 2014For anyone interested in the world of contemporary analog synthesizer music, Ishi should be a welcome addition to any collection.
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Jul 8, 2014The headspace it produces is calming but frequently, dreamily surreal, and it often seems like a better place to live than the world outside it.
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Jul 8, 2014Peaceful yet highly engaging, Ishi invokes the masters of modular synthesis, a music rooted in technology that somehow comes across as utterly primeval.
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Jul 8, 2014The result of hearing Ishi in full is a desolate, somewhat submerged feeling, with both the sounds of space travel and the light years of loneliness and isolation coming through in the album's many layers of gentle noise and spiraling synth leads.
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