Elori Saxl's find between the relationship between Technology and Nature is captivating, but only in brief moments.
Our relationship with nature has been intriguing with the introduction and evolution of major breakthroughs like the internet, where we can type down a place that we might not be able to see in our lifetime and grasp our memory of it through what has been shown on the internet. It creates a weird feeling in our memory of something that we see on the internet and not notice how technology creates a distant feeling within the creation of memory with nature.
That’s what Elori Saxl is trying to replicate in her debut album ‘The Blue of Distance’, where it touches upon ambient with its watery droning recordings and merges in Neo-classical tendencies with its accented strings and woodwinds to replicate the mystical and mysterious feel of that philosophical idea with technology and nature. It’s a fascinating record for sure and it indeed executes the concept that Saxl’s aiming for, especially in the shorter tracks where Saxl was able to deliver this mystique with the liquid recordings and the occasionally brighter and weaving woodwinds and strings. However, when she tries to deliver that mystique on the longer tracks, it doesn’t help that the looped watery recordings start to feel clunky even with the instrumental accents that keep on growing on these clanky loops.
Saxl’s conceptual discovery in this debut is captivating, a blend of both joy and despair that pours through with the contrasting ends of the watery recordings and the wafting strings and woodwinds. It ascends in shorter moments, doesn’t cut through in the longer moments.
Favorite Tracks: Wave I, Before Blue, Wave II
Least Favorite Track: Blue