Sometimes it feels like the larger our universe becomes — the more people we meet, the more events we attend, the more information and projects and material objects we accrue — the more cloistered, the more repetitive and redundant, life actually begins to feel. One of the lessons of minimalism, I think — if it is at all possible extract a “life lesson” from music — is that our horizons expand the moment we allow our universe to contract. Radio People, a new synth-centric Kosmische outing by Cleveland’s Sam Goldberg, focuses the mind’s ear on a feather-light patchwork of no-brainer arpeggios and continuous drones, and allows us to take it from there. “Exhale” is perfect Death Pose material, ideal for staring into the inner lids of your eyes, concentrating on the breath, and allowing your body to receive. Encounters with the infinite are likely to abound on The Rumor, Radio People’s new CDR, and a past collaboration with John Elliott from Emeralds certainly comes as no surprise.
Radio People, “Exhale”
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