Unseen Echo – Queen City Sounds and Art

UnseenEcho1_crop — Unseen Echo, image courtesy the artist

“Ancestor” draws you into a deep soundscape of far horizons lightly shrouded in mist. Its streaming melodies and distant low end gives the track a sense of vastness into which the more fiery guitar line and tribal drumming can resonate out into. It works as an ambient track but has too many concrete sonic figures to fully work as background. Rather, as a soundtrack to life in the remote islands of the South Pacific rarely visited by humans, a companion soundtrack to Hans Zimmer’s score for Blue Planet II. Or of a documentary about the life cycle of the albatross with the songs elegant dynamics and a sense of comfortable solitude. The mixture of fluidity and heat in the composition is a bit like a New Age progressive rock song but way more introspective and far less busy than much of that music.