Swimming Pool by Spoq
With "Swimming Pool", Spoq releases a new mind bending cinematic album. This work manages to combine warm, intimate, introverted acoustic instruments and melodies, with analogue basses, glitches, fat beats and sometimes even disharmonic, aggressive sounds. This is not at home in one genre, but rather draws chill hop, trip hop and ambient vibes just to juxtapose them with cinematic IDM and sometimes even Synth Wave and Drum'n'Bass elements. Spoq's very specific sound is very present in this album. It can maybe be described as shattering a symphonic orchestra together with vinyl crates and a bunch of broken synths, only to search for the most fragile shards and most solid pieces at the same time to puzzle together something completely new.
Even though it is an instrumental album, the themes behind "Swimming Pool" have a great emotional depth. Writer and producer Wolfram Gruss describes it as a very personal meditative musical reflection on what it means to be human: "A public swimming pool is a sort of microcosm, where for a short time we become the same. We jump in the water to swim, cool off, play, exercise or recreate. It does not matter where you come from, how you have gotten there, what your story is, what you own...everyone is just keeping their heads above the water. At the same time we become vulnerable as our bodies are exposed, the flaws and scars we rather keep covered up might show, our worries, problems and pains are waiting for us as soon as we leave the water. This is exactly the ambivalence I wanted to express with the title track. It is slow, relaxing, almost corny at times, but at the same time probably the saddest and heaviest piece of music I've ever created."
Whether you follow this thought process or not, "Swimming Pool" is definitely an album for connaisseurs looking for unusual and uniquely deep electronic music.
Tracklist
| 1. | Swimming Pool | 4:07 |
| 2. | Lament | 4:23 |
| 3. | Leg Anatomy | 4:05 |
| 4. | Twig | 3:21 |
| 5. | Desert Cave | 3:15 |
| 6. | Plunder | 3:59 |
| 7. | Halfmann | 3:12 |
| 8. | Emert | 3:11 |
| 9. | Fontanella | 4:12 |
| 10. | Alabaster | 2:51 |
| 11. | Elephant | 3:36 |
| 12. | Concentrate | 4:45 |
| 13. | Sea of Dog | 4:15 |
| 14. | Lost Coach | 4:16 |
| 15. | Torn Clouds | 3:57 |
| 16. | Mute But Conscious | 5:43 |
| 17. | Epicycloid Android | 5:33 |
| 18. | Country Fish | 3:49 |
| 19. | Forgotten Streets | 4:32 |
| 20. | Avantplonk | 3:03 |
| 21. | Metall | 3:20 |
| 22. | Rohe | 3:04 |
| 23. | Sentimental Machine | 3:46 |
| 24. | Since Then | 3:21 |
Credits
(c) 2019 Wolfram Gruss, all rights reserved
License
All rights reserved.
Sweet, but bites.
Spoq is genre bridging electronic music made by Wolfram Gruss from Aschaffenburg, Germany. Slightly experimental, sometimes quirky, occasionally overly dramatic, but most of the time pretty chill.