It’s been two weeks, so I’m focusing on the good stuff today. “Arquipélago” is minimal music at its finest. No real adornments, just a simple bassline, some drum programming, and one of those melodies that doesn’t seem much more than an ascending scale of four notes. The key is the pacing. The stops and the starts. The addition and the subtraction. All of which Gui seems to be particularly adept at. B-side “Symmetria” is a much funkier proposition, but the appeal is the same. A master of propulsion, this guy.

K2 / K2/04
[Todd Burns]