Brain Storm: Adventures in Hypoxia, by David Michael Matuch

Brain Storm: Adventures in Hypoxia

by David Michael Matuch

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1.	Soft, in the Head 01:38	buy track
2.	Synapse Lapse 02:49	buy track
3.	Lost at Shore 09:48	buy track
4.	Neural Highway – Joyride 03:37	buy track
5.	Out of Mind – The Happening 07:05	buy track
6.	Dance of the Endorphins 04:33	buy track
7.	Cerebral Vortex 09:15	buy track
8.	Abdul Oblongata 06:07	buy track
9.	Brain Storm 11:02	buy track
10.	Beyond Words 04:47	buy track
11.	Mindset – October 01:48	buy track

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(PLEASE NOTE: David passed away in 2000, but we hope his spirit lives on through his music...)

Newcomer David Michael Matuch proclaims on the first track to his
debut Carpe Sonum long-player “Soft, In the Head”, but as this
wonderful album proceeds apace, one might be better inclined to
think SF writer Thomas Disch’s short story title, “Fun With Your
New Head”. This disc’s gonna do your noggin in for sure, because
Matuch has a trick or two up his sleeve that other wannabe electronic
muckrakers can but merely galavant about in. Take “Lost At Shore”,
for instance. Sure, there’s the requisite oceanic wishy-wash but
look more closely at the reefs and your eyes take in all kinds of
strange, synthetic life teeming about the anemones, talking in long
digitized broadstrokes and alien tongues lost in weird dialog.
“Neural Highway (Joyride)” is acutely Orb-like in its engaging
moonbounce, traveling the pathways energetically thanks to a phalanx of sprightly marimba and the kind of trippy surrealism Thomas Dolby made a big deal of years ago when his mind’s eye crashed the gateway. “Cerebral Vortex” turns the modular tables so suddenly you might be caught unawares, tumbling down infinite rabbitholes of abyssal synth, vibrating drones, and austere creepiness, but once you quickly right yourself, Matuch’s gift of atmospheric gab situates your head in a more serene place. The eleven minutes of the successive “Brain Storm” promises all manner of psychic turbulence, but fear not: across its vast, engulfing timespan the affect is more like a welcoming, deeply-earned REM sleep than anything catastrophic. Matuch enables your moodstates so expertly you’re left pretty agog at the disc's past magnificence once the post-classical, string-soaked elegance of “Mindset” brings the album to a foregone conclusion.

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released April 8, 2024

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We're here because of Pete Namlook. We were the North American distributor of FAX and decided to pay tribute to him with an 8-CD boxed set entitled Die Welt ist Klang. Since we couldn't release that box on FAX, we started Carpe Sonum.

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