Rope Swing Cities is giddy like a school girl today. Seriously. If you’re still asking yourself why that is, than you obviously haven’t looked above this text and observed that we are celebrating the arrival of spring with a brand new Ten and Tracer release and CD. It probably all makes sense now.
The music of Ten and Tracer is evocative of nature and the exploration of man’s place inside the constructs around us. With this theme in mind RSC presents Mishia-F-Lehkla, wherein Ten and Tracer continues the new direction in sound that he has been exploring beginning with the sister EP on Archipel. With another beautiful EP out last year on Zymogen, Jonathan Canupp appears to be falling into a new cycle of creation, releasing what we feel is his most interesting and beautiful work to date.
Through percussion patterns that seem to continually change and morph without end, Ten and Tracer manages to build a chaotic precision not found often in any genre of music. The tones and sounds that make up Mishia-F-Lehkla call equally to the rising warmth of a summer morning as to the chilly hush of a winter night. Flowing effortlessly through the songs, these haunting sounds provide an emotionally grounding counterpoint to the subtly aggressive qualities of the underlying drums. Thoughtful and temperate, yet mildly antagonistic, Mishia-F-Lehkla constantly wrestles for balance while taking the listener along on the journey.
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01. Horatio Alger Myth
02. Heart Complaint
03. Basquiat’s Shoes
04. Self Awareness as a Suffocation
05. Ilona Qlo
06. Piano Sales
07. Tandarts