NEURONIUM
NEURONIUM
"HYDRO"
Konga Music
Michel Huygen (Neuronium) has always shown a powerful imagination when it comes to creating new universes of music and sound. And this album is a perfect example of this fact. Planned as a symphony inspired by water and everything it means for our world, "Hydro" evokes to the point of perfection a voyage through the most spectacular lakes, the wildest, most wondrous waterfalls, the most beautiful rivers, the most impressive glaciers, and of course, the oceans in all their vastness. It is difficult to create instrumental music that transmits the visual messages that this CD contains with the neatness found in "Hydro". What turns out to be most astounding is the fact that Huygen has not resorted to the obvious solution of incorporating water sounds as a decorative background of the music, something always passive, but rather he has transformed the very water sounds themselves into instruments that perform part of the melody or the rhythm. To achieve this is extremely difficult, not only from the artistic point of view, but also from the technical one. Acting as a magician of sound, Huygen makes us listen to such impossible sonic events as the sound of snowflakes falling gently onto the ground, the whispering of water drops moving within the sea, or the canticles of sirens. As if he were sculpting liquid water, he manipulates the watery sounds so that they adopt solid forms, of diverse textures and timbres. From the lush of a tropical lake to the enigmas of the ocean abysses, the listener is taken to a journey overflowing with emotions. Although Huygen did not plan "Hydro" as an obscure work, there is no lack of mysterious passages, where one can, for instance, feel as if we were descending into the impenetrable darkness of the abyssal depths, with ghostly echoes that evoke the sonar of a submarine, and metallic murmurs that suggest the threatening pressure of water on a bathyscaph.
JORGE MUNNSHE
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