Mountains, runlets caves & cascades
Self-Released, 2022
8/10
Listen to Mountains, Runlets Caves & Cascades
The Lithuanian artist gintas k returns with another iconoclastic batch of tunes, where all the pieces were played and recorded live and use a computer, midi keyboard and controller with no overdubs present.
“Mountains, runlets, caves & cascades #1” opens the listen with a warm backdrop alongside creative percussive sounds that unfold in a sci-fi sort of way, and “Mountains, runlets, caves & cascades #2” follows with faint hissing sounds that shimmer in ambience.
On the back half, the longest track, “Mountains, runlets, caves & cascades #4”, is a busier display of noise manipulation that’s sometimes haunting but always inventive, while “Mountains, runlets, caves & cascades #5” drones with a cinematic presence.
“Eastern Bells”, the final track, makes great use of dense bells that are well timed and make quite an interesting companion to the rest of the listen.
A driving force in the Lithuanian experimental scene since 1994, gintas k was an important piece of the industrial/electronic outfit Modus, and his seemingly unbounded creativity is still very much intact.
Travels well with: gintas k- Nervous Vagus; Body/Negative- Fragments