Porya Hatami: Shallow (Tench, 2014)
April 5, 2014 at 8:32 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment
Porya Hatami: Shallow
Newest album from an Iranian artist who has several albums out on labels that I’m not familiar with. Drifty field recording ambient with wispy flickering melodies, similar to some of Nobukazu Takemura’s works but without the frenetic glitchiness. Not completely soft and polished, there’s a little bit of a machine-generated roughness at points, but it’s still blissed-out enough to relax to. “Fen” starts with wind/water-type sounds, which continue throughout most of the song’s first half, and about 2/3 of the way through, there’s gentle music box notes panning through the speakers. “After the Rain” is the most concise (just shy of 10 minutes) and melody-rich track here, with more close-miked music box tinkling and more fluttery, microscopic melodic flourished along with its sublime ambient melody. “White Forest” is another rolling ambient piece with a soft melody and a subtle loop which fades away after a few minutes and lets the piece breathe a bit more. There’s a few hints of static and whispering wind, but the overall mood is calm and breezy. The digital wind swells up a bit during the last couple minutes, and there’s some more plinky electronic music box-like notes, but the last couple minutes get increasingly sparser and less active until it’s just silence and the album is over.
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