Markus Mehr 'Lava' – Furthernoise

Excerpt: “Brian Eno once said of his aesthetic for composing ambient music, ‘that it should be as ignorable as it is interesting’. While not necessarily adhering to this doctrine, Markus Mehr does succeed in one of these categories, which is composing music that is for the most part interesting, but rarely ignorable… Lava is an album as the title suggests, full of textural and timbral contrasts, which take unexpected dynamic and tonal paths. Fluid in its musicality and enveloping in its sonic reach… Mehr is clearly a composer that defies any one genre association, but within the framework of non-percussive, textural soundscapes, this falls into a number of these subsets and will be of interest to anyone of this listening persuasion.”

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