Colin Fisher – Suns of the Heart
Colin Fisher
We Are Busy Bodies (colinalexanderfisher.bandcamp.com/album/suns-of-the-heart)
Enchanting. Mesmerizing. Hypnagogic. Enveloping. Warm. Stunning. Of course, stunning is what happens when the finished product we are left with is itself a love letter to the artistic process that birthed it. The facts (from Bandcamp): multi-instrumentalist Colin Fisher and engineer David Psutka went into the studio, Fisher did live improvising, looping, layering and sampling, they bounced wonderful ideas off each other and this is the result. That is all I need, because despite many of these sounds being absolutely unlike anything else that has entered my ears, I oddly do not desire to know where they came from or how they were created. That they are here, that one person generated them live and that they were ultimately the result of a partnership in their current form is a gratifying enough answer in itself.
This music has so much allure to it, so much intricacy, so much to pull from, that the limits of descriptive language immediately make themselves known. One could try – one could talk about the gut-wrenching distorted guitar melodies on Deus Absconditus sounding like the broken broadcast transmission of stomach tissue being torn apart, pitched to the melody of an uncannily familiar lullaby that has never been played before. The most warped moments sound like angels, the click-clacking of the keys on Fisher’s horn sound like heartbeats, everything feels like it’s being held up by the most fragile material, yet everything will forever remain suspended in air.
