Sculpture Music – The Compass EP
Sculpture Music - The Compass
Release Date: Out Now
So often I receive new music
which is impressive enough but played out on the tried and tested instrumentation
of guitar, bass, drums and vocals. Step forward Exeter based soloist Sculpture
Music (aka Matt Calder) and we have a very different affair on our hands. This
EP features acoustic guitar, for sure, but there’s also Hang Drum, Halo
Handpans and a whole load of non-organic instrumentation that makes for a heady
and disorientating brew. The first of these four tracks is ‘Seeds’ which opens
like an 80s movie ballad before growing and emerging in to something more
otherworldly. Sculpture Music blends the melodies and tone of Tears for Fears
or Howard Jones with a worldlier outlook that wouldn’t be out of place on a
Peter Gabriel album. It’s a strong start indeed.
‘A Last Kiss’ starts as though it
is played backwards through your half-awake consciousness on a sunny afternoon
and you start to realise that Sculpture Music has created something more akin
to a mood-scape than a set of traditional set of songs. In fact, nothing here is
as you might expect it with both time and space allowed to run rampant on all
the songs – not something you hear a lot of these days. On ‘Let Go’, things
step up a notch with an insistent beat plays nicely with the delicate and
subtle melodies to create music that has a cinematic feel to it but also an atmospheric
nature that fills the space all around you. The EP closes out with title track ‘The
Compass’ where rippling acoustic notes mix with Folk inspired vocals and a contemporary
beat that keeps this away from sounding like a tired shanty. Sculpture Music is
creating music in a different way but that doesn’t mean he’s ignore the importance
of melody and mood which are both captured here in glorious abundance.
More information: https://www.facebook.com/sculpturemusica/
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