Sean Von Sleight – Life Under Quarantine (Fringe Biology Recordings, 2020)
Synthesist Sean Von Sleight presents an album with two extensive, fascinating tracks. It is spellbinding, gradually evolving electronic music featuring dreamtime ambient layers, Berlin-style sequencers and tribal beats. Sean Von Sleight composed this music to represents the various stages of life during the COVID-19 pandemic, fluctuating between slow trance-like passages and interspersed bursts representing panic and a final joyful section representing recovery.
Sean Von Sleight used the unique Suzuki Waraku Koto Synthesizer that he bought on Ebay in 2016. This instrument was attractively designed and enclosed in exotic wood, with a shape similar to a classic taisho koto (Japanese zither). The synthesizers has 27 keys with 5 string bridges and 4 assignable drum pads, using Japanese traditional instruments like koto, shamisen, shakuhachi, etc.
Although Life Under Quarantine is meant to be played as one long track; it was broken up for the digital format.
Buy the digital edition of Life Under Quarantine from amazon or the CD from Bandcamp.