Nabil Muquit Crafts a Surreal Electronic Ambience in ‘The Only Way Out is Up’
Nabil Muquit understands and projects ambience in insightful ways. He expresses the nuances of energy, mood, mundanity, ennui and pace of life as rippling contemporaries of jazz, hip-hop, blues, funk, and soul. His music dilates perceptions, unwinds time and refreshes the mind. Listeners of FKJ, Tom Misch, and Masego are sure to enjoy the portraits of surrealism and lo-fi abstractions that this artist and composer presents with his music. Nabil Muquit has newly released his fourth album titled, ‘The Only Way Out is Up’. Containing seven tracks, the collection draws from philosophies and human experiences to coalesce as substantial sonic concepts.
‘Pieces of a Dream’ opens the album. It froths with circular patterns, be it the springing synths or the blotting melodies, dots of hip-hop beats and loops of guitar grooves. They all have an infinity to them, overlapping circles like raindrops on water, forming and reforming. Then comes the rem cycle, a dimensionless frame of stillness, textured only by flakes of guitar acoustics. It stretches like a horizon to the end of the track.
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This combination of dynamism and quietude can be seen even in ‘New Cycle’. Opening with whispering synth swells, the hyperactivity rides in the sprinting beat cycles. Vying for contrast, the synths separate from this rhythm. Deliberately slow and ruminative, they fly under the beat radar.
Its intrinsic blues and tinkling jazz plays into the next two tracks ‘Neo-Expressionist’ and ‘P&P’. The former unravels with a neo-classical pulse marked with undernotes of its predecessor. ‘P&P’ on the other hand is more generously imprinted. It is its own unique track, mellow to a fault with chill undulations. Midway through, it dances with the truncated melodies of blissful jazz and blues, old school style.
With all these tracks, there’s a common theme. They are streams of conscious flows that are designed to excite and enhance contemplative experiences. Formless and defying conventional formats, they flow. Almost always ending in a place vastly different from provenance. In tracks like, ‘Zero Degrees’, ‘Honor’ and ‘Unbreakable Faith’, the artist so beautifully conveys atmospheres of emptiness, nudging them to peaks of clarity and depths of thought before they flutter away into the light in the sky. Listen Now!
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