Brady, Gabriel - Day-Blind

Through the interaction of dulcet textures and harmonious melodies, infused with Greek bouzouki string plucks, sporadic piano and violin, Brady laments the everyday with daring simplicity on his lustrous ambient / alt-folk debut. Attracted by the sensibilities of old French film scores, especially those by Michel Legrand and Jean Constantin and the sheer simplistic beauty of forbearing composers Debussy, Satie and Ravel, Brady cites inspiration in a warm earnestness to the melodies; and the complete, unmediated feeling that such scores and orchestrations create. Written and produced in his bedroom dorm at Harvard, in Cambridge Massachusetts, Brady recorded organic instruments (violin, bouzouki) before routing them through a compact modular synth setup acting as a sound chamber for further manipulation (loops, effects, textures). In striving to make sense of the ordinary, on Day-blind, Brady’s works are invariably imbued with a sense of serenity and tension. Across its seven vignettes, 'Day-blind' is life animated as Brady makes possible an everyday encounter with the transcendent. For fans of: Merope, Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer, Memotone, The Caretaker