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cyclus ONE (album)

by Synth replicants

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Album review from Rockliquias.com - by JJ Iglesias

Last week we talked about a whole "creative incontinent" from Croatia, today we do the same with a synthetist from Denmark. "Synth Replicants" is the artistic pseudonym of Per Thomhav. Who has been dedicated to recreating his admired heroes since he was 14 years old: Vangelis, Jean-Michel Jarre and Tangerine Dream.

I count about 40 titles in his discography. I will not say anything else. "Cyclus ONE" is one of the most recent, released in December 2020, (he has released three or four more since then!).
An expert in descriptive settings, who has learned well by attending to his teachers.

"Trip Back Los Santos" (5'57) could be located in the TD time frame that goes from "Tangram" (1980), to "Hyperborea" (1983). Modern sequencing, with a real drums simulation even very well achieved, uncomplicated melodies, ethereal textures under a pseudo-digital cloak that photographs that stage to perfection. That seems to be the sound strategy for this album.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw2ohgPHvME

Because "Closer to the Sun" (7'20) could be part of "Exit" or "White Eagle" without much effort. Again the "percussions" have been reliably picked up by their electronics. A strong suit for Synth Replicants, any organic-looking rhythm approach. Difficult virtue that not everyone achieves with the required quality. Often relegated to the background. A very original cut with rhythm as the base.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_l7ViB4f_g



We go back a few years in the career of the Sleepy Tangerine, and "Babushka Dream" (9'06) contains more 70s essences. Background mellotron, traditional Berlin sequencer, and even electric guitar solos, (which I'd bet is a synth!), Emulating Edgar Froese's sunny psychedelics. Extraordinary sound vignette with analogue sandwiches and progressive formwork of the first order. Per Thomhav is well acquainted with this mambo, and reproduces it with optimum skill.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-GTGW5ouqc

Mysticism is essential to this, and in "In the Name of the Father" (5'33) we have an example of cosmic introspection at the highest level. This synth-replicant is now more Roy Batty than Nexus 6. Approaching the oxygenated French, in its more Schulzian beginnings.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_c3hTRGRKw

What a formidable architectural perspective the rhythm of "No Getaway" (6'50) offers us. As in the Bauhaus aesthetic movement itself, also native to Berlin, here there is practical and functional minimalism, in sequential conversation. Simple but resounding. Explorer and assimilable at the same time.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o6K5WbEE80

And as one of its established principles, "form follows function." I do not rule out Dusseldorf strokes in context. Impressionism is also made wonderful music here in "Colors of the Rainbow" (7'14), and now we almost stay on "Stratosfear" for reference. Like a cosmic Cézanne or Degas, surrounded by synthesizers, the kosmische canvas is here a success in today's creation of synthesis. Never as revivalism, and yes pulsating work in accordance with the present. The great achievement of the Berlin School is its eternal futurism.
I will always say it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLEHL2fpRBM

"Into the Night" (6'50) is perfect retro-synth for a series like "Strange Things".
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aujVrKI_89s

"Memory" (4'00) is a love poem written and performed with perfection
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aujVrKI_89s

The work of this Danish project deserves much more coverage. It would not be fair, paraphrasing his ancestor, to lose himself "like tears in the rain." Nexus 10.

JJ IGLESIAS



THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE HERE
www.rockliquias.com/2021/03/synth-replicants-cyclus-one-2020-sr.html?fbclid=IwAR05-unM2Of7lPGJ-x6pKJSODtm8FXFiSCsWt1Cz9r-382E5EPIt0FjkesE

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released December 20, 2020

All music and cover art by Per Thomhav
@cover photo,"The Umbrella man" credit to Evgeni Tcherkasski - EvgeniT

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Synth replicants Denmark

Per Thomhav (2019 - Current):
Keyboards, synthesizers, sequencers, programming, composer, producer whose music is influenced by Tangerine Dream, Jean-Michel Jarre, Vangelis...

Steve Labrecque (2023 - Current):
Guitars, composer, whose style is influenced primarily by 70’s progressive and hard rock with a love for the music of Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze
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