Jonarific 2015-02-22 13:09:44

I'm not sure if my answers will be productive beyond satisfying curiosity. I've never been one to appreciate a song due to it's quality, sound construction, etc. I've no musical training or attempts at creating music on my own. I like your kind of music depending on the thoughts, images, places, actions that it brings to mind as I listen to it.

I often check up on your work in cycles, downloading everything at once and listening at my convenience, I haven't heard every single track yet, but I can give you my favorites atm.

Zhuur>Stasis>Contrition>>Pelagus

The only reasons that come to mind is that Zhurr just conveys how I feel about the boring day to day grind of life, the chorus just goes about it's business while the background just kinda hangs out, it's got a depressing feel to it, I think that applies to your style in general - a bit more minimalist and doing as much as you can with very little, it makes a lot (not all) but a lot of your music have a silence/void/depressive/foreboding sense to it, zhurr really is the epitome of this, which i love.

stasis is another one of those silence/void/foreboding songs. the grinding sounds that starts a little after the beginning, and stops a little before the end makes this song feel odd (in a good way) the bouncing/scratchy/grinding sound's constantly changing and "back and forth" sound give it a sense of more going on under the hood, i guess.

contrition makes me think of innocence, i get a feeling of a story with each song. this one just has an innocent start, steps/movement represented as water droplets, a gentle innocent humming or singing, a bit more background noise as the song continues, until it reaches a high-point with the background noises and then calms down again. when i tried to share your music with a friend, they said it was all "samey ambient stuff" but there's a clear difference between something like contrition and the zhurr/stasis.

pelagus sounds depressing and mystical. it was one of the first songs i found from you and it stuck with me. it's as if one part of the music is singing to the other, then the other replies, it makes me think of two things interacting together, traveling together, existing together - i suppose the epitome of two things being together like this would be love, so pelagus comes off as a love-song to me. it has your own tone to it, minimalist, doing a lot with a little, patient.

heh... i realize these are all subjective opinions, but i hope they're at least interesting to you.