Artistically rooted musical expression, built around the desire to explore feelings and ideas, and as such led by a powerful sense of freedom and conceptual purpose that boldly connects. PHI-108 is a fascinating and admittedly niche musical project, but one that aptly creates a profound space to escape into as it slowly fills the room.
PHI-108 is the combined talents of Alfred Abraham and Alan Barber, once bandmates during the nineties, now united as a globally collaborative outfit between the US and Australia, for the dreamy to psychedelic folk fusion of conceptual depth and intrigue that made Behind The Curtain.
Behind the Curtain is just one of a plethora of original singles from the duo, but is one of their most creatively enthralling, and marks a fine introduction to the style.
We’re in a kind of progressive to theatrical folk-rock arena of sound, with cascading voices aptly reimagining the very essence of being lost inside a dream. This particular lyric echoes out as these voices rain down and collide, with a smooth sense of chaos to meet with the distinct and characterful lead at the forefront.
Conceptual depth and intrigue is a huge part of what guides in Behind The Curtain. Initially we’re exposed to an acoustically fingerpicked guitar sound, and a nearly-whispered, intimate voice of personal storytelling. The melody is long-form and expressive, progressive by nature, and the music and vocal passion build consistently – layers of bass and rhythm and additional voice all furthering the hypnotic embrace of this dream.
It’s a fearlessly organic representation of a surreal situation, and everything about the PHI-108 style works hard to reinforce that.
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