Audiovisual Yonk

https://bambooshows.bandcamp.com/album/audiovisual-yonk A new figure joins Bamboo Shows this spring: Apulati Bien. Through “Audiovisual Yonk”, the Brussels-based composer gathers abandoned sketches once intended for cinema and theatre, reworking them into the imaginary soundtrack of a dark sci-fi film set in Mexico City’s nocturnal outskirts. On his fifth LP, Apulati Bien sinks into digital melancholia and cinematic contemplation, building a deeply textural world out of fake-familiar instruments, ageing computers’ death rattle and decayed electromagnetic interference. Wandering souls drift across flesh shells stripped of identity, while phones ring between dimensions, pulling the music from a bottomless inner lake to distant constellations. Due out on 20 May on CD and digitally, “Audiovisual Yonk” moves through ambient electronica, internet-age trip-hop and leftfield eeriness with a strange, unsettled grace.