Daedelus - Righteous Fists of Harmony - 12"

Label: Brainfeeder
Genre: Electronic
Format: EP Vinyl

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Import. This singular undertaking is entirely typical of Daedeluss fertile, butterfly imagination a mini-album conceived as an imaginary soundtrack to the Chinese Boxer Rebellion of 1899. Thankfully, LAs Alfred Darlington approaches this self-imposed task from an oblique angle. Hoary old kung-fu movie samples are conspicuously by their absence, and its difficult to discern any overtly Chinese touches at all. Instead, there are eight characteristically mellifluous compositions that combine warm, melodic lyricism with simple but subtle arrangements, skipping blithely across stylistic boundaries. Daedelus neatly combines vintage textures, skittering beats and plaintive oboe for his scene-setting opener, and then goes on to introduce elegant flamenco picking (Tidal Waves Uprising), airy bossa nova (Order Of The Golden Dawn) and even reedy stylophones (Succumbing). Some of the tracks are little more than sketches, but theres enough imagination on display across these 25 minutes to put many larger scale works to shame. - WIRE MAGAZINE

Tracklist
1. An Armada Approaches
2. Tidal Waves Uprising
3. The Open Hand Avows
4. Order Of The Golden Dawn - f/ Laura Darling
5. The Finishing of a Thing
6. Succumbing To - f/ Kid A
7. Stampede Me - f/ Amir Yaghmai
8. Fin De Siècle