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Finding Our Way Back Home EP [HCR007]

by Mariska Neerman

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Industrial Complexx Premiere:
Bonus Digital. Mariska Neerman - Fresh Eyes (Shawescape Remix): soundcloud.com/industrialcomplexx/premiere-mariska-neerman-fresh-eyes-shawescape-rmx-hc-records

We have been looking towards the stars since the coming of mankind, without realizing that the greatest of mysteries is found in the least explored setting of our own planet.

From Belgium, producer Mariska Neerman signs the seventh HC Records vinyl reference: Finding Our Way Back Home. A musical tale that plunges us, from the shores of the North Sea, in an underwater journey through iridescent passages inviting us to discover the orography of the seabed, where fantastic abyssal creatures and infinite coral banks interweave a multicoloured horizon.

Crossing the English Channel in our futuristic and underwater ship we glimpse the first harmonies of Transatlantic Romancer, the first vinyl cut, where the Hi-Tech Jazz precepts developed in the Motor City by Mike Banks, Gerald Mitchell and the rest of the UR components, they are embodied in an emotional Neo Detroit arrangement where cavernous basses, liquefied pads and sparkling keyboards play like fish in foam in an elaborate and melodic "in crescendo" compendia, along with the sinuous cadence of a calm broken rhythm.

We enter a whirlwind of sound sensations in which melancholy, hope and the reunion with the essence of oneself are distilled in each note and atmosphere of Finding Our Way Back Home. A peak in maximum splendour and artistic intensity in which Mariska displays a colossal compendium of creative resources only available to a virtuous woman to whom the immensity of the ocean is too small. Pure fluorescent Electro as rare to find today as a black pearl.

We make a stop on our trip posing our bathyscaphe on an abandoned wreckage, from where we observe the ritual by which, mustering the strength, thousands of snorks get up every day and sing their oblong and diaphonic voices in Rise Up, the B side opening track. In it, three sound layers overlap like ocean currents: on the one hand, a marked 4x4 beat spiced up by a rich rhythmic structure between percussions and hi-hat lacking the mid-tempo hegemony of the snare; on the other, a dense and slow bass in the background; and, on the surface, an amalgam of brilliant arpeggios and melodies in an unprecedented and chromatic explosive symphony.

From a deep chasm, the bubbly and euphoric melodies of Fresh Eyes caress our soul and lighten our gaze in a new exercise of futuristic broken rhythms in which waving harmonic sequences dominate the development of its entire sonic skeleton. It shows the overwhelming ability of this creator to draw fairy landscapes with the use of electronic musical synthesis.

An ending as dramatic as it is hopeful is the one that Anima Sola expresses as the ending of the trip, where the mastery of an elaborate harmonic creation intoxicates our senses in just two and a half minutes of pure helical catharsis that propels us towards the surface.

As an epilogue, and as a bonus track in digital download, Detroit producer Shawescape remakes Fresh Eyes, giving the rhythmic part more presence and force and giving the genuine sound of Detroit to the melody treatment.

A neat mastering from Black Monolith Studios, directed by Steve Voidloss, polishes every sound frequency until they shine.

The graphic aspect has been treated with the utmost care. On the one hand, through the cover created by illustrator Manuel Monzonis aka LuzdeKilo, who manages to capture all the sound, conflict and spirituality of the EP in a performance in which hundreds of marine creatures accompany a female figure that ascend towards the light. And, on the other, the creative direction of Dani Requeni, who succeeds in the design of the back cover with a selection of elegant waving fonts, together with a clean and tidy spatial composition.

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Llevamos mirando hacía las estrellas desde el origen del hombre sin percatarnos que el mayor de los misterios se encuentra en el entorno menos explorado de nuestro propio planeta.

Desde Bélgica, la productora Mariska Neerman firma la séptima referencia en vinilo de HC Records: Finding Our Way Back Home. Una narración musical que nos sumerge, desde las costas del Mar del Norte, en un viaje subacuático a través de pasajes iridiscentes, que invitan a descubrir la orografía de los fondos marinos, donde fantásticas criaturas abisales y bancos de coral infinitos entretejen un horizonte multicolor.

Cruzando el canal de la Mancha en nuestra futurista y subacuática nave vislumbramos las primeras armonías de Transatlantic Romancer, primer corte del vinilo, donde los preceptos de la Hi-Tech Jazz desarrollados en la Ciudad del Motor por Mike Banks, Gerald Mitchell y el resto de componentes de UR, se plasman en una emocional composición Neo Detroit donde bajos cavernosos, pads licuados y chispeantes teclados juegan como peces en la espuma en elaborados compendios melódicos "in crescendo", junto a la cadencia sinuosa de un calmado ritmo roto.

Nos adentramos en un torbellino de sensaciones sonoras en las que la melancolía, la esperanza y el reencuentro con la esencia de uno mismo se destilan en cada nota y atmósfera de Finding Our Way Back Home. Máximo esplendor e intensidad artística en la que Mariska despliega un colosal compendio de recursos creativos solo al alcance de una virtuosa a la que la inmensidad del océano se le queda pequeña. Puro Electro fosforescente tan raro de encontrar en la actualidad como una perla negra.

Realizamos una parada en nuestro viaje posando nuestro batiscafo sobre un pecio abandonado, desde donde observamos el ritual por el que, sacando fuerzas de flaquezas, miles de “snorkels” se levantan cada día y entonan sus oblongas y difónicas voces en Rise Up, track que inaugura la cara B. En él, tres estratos sonoros se superponen como corrientes marinas: por un lado, un marcado beat 4x4 aderezado por una rica estructura rítmica entre percusiones y charles carente de la hegemonía a medio tiempo del snare; por otro, un denso y pausado bajo en segundo plano y, en la superficie, un amalgama de brillantes arpegios y melodías en una inaudita sinfonía de explosión cromática.

Desde una profunda sima las burbujeantes y eufóricas melodías de Fresh Eyes acarician nuestro alma y aclaran nuestra mirada en un nuevo ejercicio de futuristas ritmos rotos en el que ondulantes secuencias armónicas dominan el desarrollo de todo su esqueleto sonoro. Muestra de la abrumadora capacidad de esta creadora para trazar paisajes feéricos con el uso de la síntesis electrónica musical.

Un final tan dramático como esperanzador es el que Anima Sola expresa a modo de conclusión de viaje, donde la dominancia de una elaborada constitución armónica embriaga nuestros sentidos en tan solo dos minutos y medio de duración de pura catarsis helicoidal que nos impulsa hacia la superficie.

A modo de epílogo, y como bonus track en descarga digital, el productor de Detroit Shawescape reinterpreta Fresh Eyes, dotando de mayor presencia y contundencia la parte rítmica y otorgándole la genuina sonoridad de Detroit al tratamiento de las melodías.

Un pulcro mastering de Black Monolith Studios, dirigido por Steve Voidloss, pule cada frecuencia de sonido hasta hacerlas resplandecer.

El aspecto gráfico ha sido tratado con el mayor de los cuidados. Por un lado, a través de la portada del ilustrador Manuel Monzonis “LuzdeKilo”, que consigue plasmar toda la sonoridad, conflicto y espiritualidad del EP en una representación en la que cientos de criaturas marinas acompañan a una figura femenina que ascienden hacia la luz. Y, por otro, la dirección creativa de Dani Requeni que acierta en el diseño de la contraportada con una selección de elegantes fuentes ondulantes, junto a una composición espacial limpia y ordenada.

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released April 22, 2021

All tracks written, mixed & produced by Mariska Neerman.
Mastered by Voidloss at Black Monolith Studio, London.
Cover art by Manuel Monzonis "Luzdekilo".
Label art & Designs by Dani Requeni.
Press Note by Domingo Dark Vinyl.
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