Shift

レバノン系カナダ人のミュージシャンNATALIE CHAMIによるエレクトロニック・プロジェクト、TALSOUNDS。
シンセとエレクトロニクス、フリーインプロヴィゼーションとコンポジションを意図的に、緻密に融合させたエレクトロ・アコースティック・セッション、そしてヴォーカル・パフォーマンスでこれまでBA DA BING!、HAUSU MOUNTAINからリリースがあります。
デジタル・シンセサイザーとFMシンセサイザーのみでレコーディングされた作品で、彼女の特徴であるアナログ・シンセの温かみのあるサウンドが冴えわたっています。

Natalie Chami named her third LP (following many cassettes) Shift because of the numerous changes in her life that occurred in the years preceding its release, including her marriage, relocation from Chicago to the Washington, D.C. area, and employment at electronics manufacturer Korg. Shes also switched to digital rather than analog synthesizers, taking her music further from its lo-fi beginnings. Her work still sounds like it was dreamt up in real time, however, with melodies and lyrical hooks floating to the surface, and its her mixture of planned ideas and improvisation that keeps her music fresh and spontaneous. On a few tracks, particularly the ambient pop opener "Palms" and the trippier "Climbing," she layers her voice and synths until they cloud up with distortion at the end. "Still Talking" is a lovely bummed-out daydream with a see-sawing melody and Chamis multi-tracked voice singing "Can I tell you something? I want to talk about us" in a way that sounds both conversational and mantra-like. Tracks like "Water Bodies" and "Fading Phase" are light, bubbly, and refreshing, while "Searching" adds some cosmic drama with gliding synths that sound like certain corners of Detroit techno, but stretched out and separated from beats. "The Ground" continues in this mode, but deep bass frequencies shoot through as Chamis ghostly voice rises, and everything gradually gets grainier, denser, and more hallucinogenic. ~ Paul Simpson