Ground

SUNIZM (2X12)

ESP Institute

ESP063

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Ground Is An Osaka Native, But His Soul Is Truly That Of A Nomad, Traversing The Planet, Befriending The Kindred Spirits Found In Humans, Animals And Plants. He Is Exceptionally Receptive To The Beauty In All That Surrounds Him—the Incidental Music Of A Busy City Street, The Orchestrated Chaos Of A Scrambling Radio, The Syncopated Grace Of A Migrating Flock Of Birds, The Simplicity Of An Isolated Hand Clap—and As His Map Continuously Unfolds, He Accumulates A Vast Catalogue Of Visceral Tools To Complex Musically Recount His Experiences. Sunizm Is A Cross Section Of The Artist’s Process—an Array Of Complex Microcosms Overlapping To Comprise A Thematic Whole—gathering Field Recordings, Found Instrumentation, Jagged Electronics, And Synthesized Chanting, To Be Woven Into A Dense Narrative That Appears Both Obsessively Constructed And Divinely Improvised. With Each Consecutive Track, The Artist Gradually Constructs Hypnotic Patterns That 1-up The Mind As It Struggles To Break Free From A Seduction Of Loops, Steadily Intensifying Until Reaching An Apex Of Sound Collage So Cerebral That The Listener Might Consider A Post-album Shower. But Alas, The Fourth Quarter Releases A Bit Of Pressure, Our Gobs Still Lay Smacked But There Is A Warm Confidence As The Psychedelic Trial Delivers Us Home To Nod Out. Dear Humans, Animals And Plants, Ground And The Esp Institute Present, Sunizm.