Blinkar från Norr - Metaphors For Things written by Balderus

You may think that, from now on, I am focusing on Italian composers but that’s not on purpose, I do swear! Interesting Italian artists are legion and, this time, my random virtual digging has helped me to discover Blinkar från Norr, a one-man act from Sardinia, despite the band name chosen.

From the very first second of ‘Motionless’ you get kicked straight into a static dream made of a intense sound layer that surrounds you senses and allows you to reach your deepest memories. Memories of Nature, memories of ether, memories of highness, all for thyself, with no human intervention or presence: the resonance, the memory, the timeless feeling of unaffected serenity, at an infinite distance, far from the common scrounging there below.

Track by track, like a brook peacefully running down a rocky hill, from ‘Constant Uncertainty’ to the smoothly spluttering ‘Disconnection From Reality’, then to the opening onto a bright horizon on ‘Other Days’, all is slithering and the listener is being left dangling, inside this musical motion picture and its cinematic charge, the one that transports you to the aforementioned memories of landscapes, loads of feelings, pressing sensations and weightless gestures. The projection room is the secular world; you get up from your restraining seat and walks through the screen, behind the veil.

You know what, reader? Even if it is a bit risky, I am going to tell you what I can subjectively refer to. What come to my mind: the dramatic track ‘Soulmates’ by Portuguese witch house band Veils (Aural Sects, 2013), the everlasting and incredible ambient track ‘VLetrmx21’ by Sheffield electronica emperors Autechre (Warp, 1995) and, for what the spirit of this recorded performance means to me, the 25-hour soundscape and landscape track ‘Route One’ by the famous Icelandic band Sigur Rós, which is a 25-hour (!) road trip all around Iceland, a video clip for a special soundtrack that illustrates the surreal and varied landscapes of this isle of mysteries, there, up North.

Well, it looks like a weird body of references, doesn’t it?

Believe me: listen to all these references first, then play this album on your headphones and maybe, one day, you’ll tell me how your journey across the screen was. Pay attention to this debut album: I want to believe this is not an end but a start rather. There are so many more metaphors for things to explore.

Bandcamp: (label)

https://astrangelyisolatedplace.bandcamp.com/album/metaphors-for-things