Electroambient Space (USA)
The Discerning Guide to Instrumental Electronic Music
Jacek Spruch is back as E=Motion on Drifting Loops, another set of
decidedly happy upbeat music with the usual sense of playfulness and good
fun. Bell tones make a nice sequencer loop to start the opening track,
“Recurring Waves.” “Old Schooner” has a cool buzzy retro synth to
start and a deep rich bass tone that also harkens back to yesteryear.
While still upbeat it has a relaxed feel as well, very nice. “Phantom”
continues the trend of cool-sounding loops that move along just right,
neither too fast nor too slow. “Riddle,” on the other hand, opens up
the throttle with a brisk bit of sequencing. But even on the faster
tracks, Jacek shows good restraint, not letting things get too frenetic as
the intensity gradually builds. “Harbor” is a soothing midtempo piece,
as is “Comet.” Spruch varies the pacing and sound palette just enough
from track to track on Drifting Loops to keep things interesting while
retaining his familiar enjoyable brand of electronic music throughout.
Phil Derby, 2009
Guts Of Darkness
(CAN)
The French Magazine of Dark & Experimental Music
Fine arpeggios come fall harmoniously in an inverted carousel on the opening of Recurring Waves. A sweet sequence, bass and wavy, hiccoughs a suave tempo which moves through a weighted pace in this sound prism to soft brightness. Soft, but hooked on a feverish structure, Recurring Waves open this E=Motion 7th opus with the same musical ardor that characterizes the Polish musician since I discovered him on 2004’s Re-Trance-Mission. Exploiting profoundly the meanders of the circling loops on heavy and hypnotic rhythms, Jacek Spruch delivers a harmonious album who’s flowing by a strange temporal labyrinth, thankfully to these delicious sonorous ferrules which strew all the 10 tracks on Driftin’ Loops.
A lugubrious intro which extends as a slow race in a musical labyrinth opens Old Schooner. Fines but weighty pulsations add to this obscure tension, on a synth to spectral breaths stuffed with twists coil which zigzag where beautiful solos run on metallic percussions. A beautiful title that hooks, quite as Phantom and Deja V who are slower and more hypnotic in a ghostly atmosphere with a synth to heavy and acuity laments. Here, deriving Comput loops have a surprising effect, in a very electronic cosmic envelope. Riddle is more direct with his hemling sequence that is moulding to intriguing reverberations thus a methodical and hypnotic pulsation. Long solos, such as sound lighthouses, punctuate the track which extends itself with a stroboscopic sharpness on percussions which ring as horse’s clogs, before embracing a crazy restlessness. A loud track, on chiseled synth, like Comet. Hrabor is a short piece based on good percussions to felted sparkles and a very lyrical synth. A soft music piece with a kind of sensuality that sways itself its hips on delicate solos. Chilling Out is of a romantic sweetness with its lounge aspect and its undulating bass, while Waves' n’ Bases is heavier, but not too much, preserving this night club moods to lounge tendencies. Live? revives the delicate sound prisms which opened Recurring Waves, but with a more caustic and heavier curly structure.
With Drifting Loops, E=Motion continues to exploit diverse rhythms in a living ambiance, animated of good sequences sometimes feverish and neurotic but always melodious.
A beautiful EM album which exploits stunning musical spirals and loops on a musical genre that pitched between soft techno and electro pop. Sylvain Lupari (Phaedream), 2009
