Vanishing Point
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Vanishing Point is a musical treasure ready to be unearthed. The album is a series of evocative late-night reflections guided by hypnotic vocals that emerge from a landscape of thick atmospheres, hypnotic beats, and minimal organ.
Drawing from a wide range of influences - such as the modal jazz of Coltrane and Miles, the classical Indian music of Nikhil Banerjee and Bade Ghulam Ali Khan, the trip-hop of Portishead and the minimalism of James Blake - Run Child Run commands a rich palette of sounds that take on an almost mystic quality; simultaneously ancient and distinctly new.
In RCR's own words: “The music is primarily a process, a practice of self-discovery more concerned with approach than with outcome. It is a meditation, in which melodies and rhythms are explored through repetition until they find their simple resting place.”
The opening track ‘Darbari’ gradually builds through chimes and reverberating strings, evoking the rich tradition of the ghazal, as it transitions into the steady drone and ethereal vocalizations of ‘Hungry’. Nodding to the spiritual works of Alice Coltrane, Run Child Run pushes influence forward with his merging of warm vocal harmonies with undulating 808 beats. The danceable electronics come to the fore in the propulsive ‘Can’t Catch Me’, before switching to the plaintive, unadorned lyricism of ‘Whispering One’.
Closing on the eerie rhythms and washed-out synths of ‘Stay There’ and ‘Untitled’, Vanishing Point proves to be a deeply layered and complex record, one in which its single-mindedness creates a beautiful space of open reflection for the listener.
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