Reviews of Now We Are Branches And Leaves [12k3038]

Knight and øjeRum offer up their own free-spirited take, as they construct a textured, glacial journey that summons filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky’s mantra of ‘sculpting in time.’

A single piece, stretching across an hour, like watching the light shift through the branches of a tree. It moves without moving, changes without changing, and by the end, you may not be sure if you’ve drifted off into another world – or if it was this world, all along, that had shifted around you.

Its sound is warm, rich, and haunting, and radiates a sensibility of deep listening.

Wool trumpet, emerald synthesizer, piano descent of stars in the ultramarine conches, and the infinite rise of the branches and leaves of the engulfed magic forest.

The warm, at the same time almost ghostly sound aesthetic creates a haunting tension.