Intensely enveloping neo-classical, ambient soundscapes – a cinematic album of fine details warmly intertwined. Belgian composer and producer Suntapes welcomes listeners into the evocative depths and imaginative spacious charm of Travel Motion.
To introduce the album, the modest crackle and subtle musicality of Overland softly commands that you take a step back and calm down. A tentative but established introduction, polite and skilful in wholly embracing the listener in this meeting between piano and intricate sound design.
Then for Motion, we enter a much more hypnotic realm, two separate melodies amidst the vintage hum of this cinematic aura – one haunting, one hopeful; an hypnotic loop of uncertainty and movement.
Eight original compositions let you fully immerse yourself in the listening space of Travel Motion the album. Suntapes guides us through instances of melancholy and optimism intermittently, but it’s all humble, all to be interpreted by the listener.
The music is divinely delicate, but also quietly commandeering, and this strength is piercingly notable throughout the likes of highlights Plaza and Misterioso.
There’s also a profoundly all-consuming depth of sound to the healing frequency and power of Cavern – an intoxicating closing track, confirming the essential power of music in temporarily freeing us from the jagged edges of modern life.
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