Stepping over the borders between the shadow dimensions is EGONE, spirit animal of Daniel Westurlund. A splintered, shimmering beast of rippling opulent colours, EGONE uses his magical DNA to traverse the shadow realms, spanning huge distances from folk to post punk to world music to psych to ambient to space rock to drone. In his latest landfall he finds himself in the bright world of fractured electro and dub.
Wherever EGONE lands he masters the art form. If he lands in folk, (see Behold A New Traveller) he produces heart felt gorgeous tales from the mystic fjords. If he travels to drone, such as the second half of All The Suns Of The Earth, he produces deep cutting swathes of entropic noise from the very ends of the universe. On SMOKEDIVER he travelled east of Constantinople, running with spies through gardened patios, playing The Great Game and besting evil adversaries.
Now, on Brilliant Apparatus he offers frisky, cheeky cut ups of electronic garblings, noises from here and there, smashed with the ghosts of game boys and Vincent Price. Here we find him playful and jocular, jostling beats and samples where he once drove drones and plucked guitars.
Brilliant Apparatus doesn’t have the heart or beauty of some of his other work, but it has the joy of discovery and the thrill he finds in his boundless musicology.
This isn’t really a review of Brilliant Apparatus but an ode to EGONE telling you to buy everything he’s ever made. EGONE is a 21st century genius who sees all of music, comprehends it’s limitless scope, then makes music to bedazzle every inch of your soul.
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