‘Unmetrical’ is the new album by Vagantpoesi, a Swedish experimental sound artist and producer based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Vagantpoesi charts a course through abstract, minimal ambient, electronic and electroacoustic territories. Lush synths and samples are paired with fragmented, processed instruments, voices and other unidentified sounds which flutter and echo through the spacious soundfields. Rich with interesting details, Unmetrical rewards careful, quiet listening.
Credits
Written, produced and mixed by Edgar Ariza
Mastering by Viktor Eidhagen at Rumsklang
Artwork by Elise Wilson
Layout by Timothy Allen
© 2024 Vagantpoesi
Reviews
From Perceptual Tapes, a label barely a year old out of Hobart, Tasmania, comes this new work from the Swedish composer. It’s a long set of short pieces rippling with detail, invaded with crinkling and flickering textures to cast faultlines across their glistening surfaces. In listening, this incursion feels ongoing and unending in grinding at our perception of space where process is ever-present.
Andrew Khedoori
Longform Editions – First Impressions
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In our Western culture of conformity and convention, the boundaries of what constitutes as “music” is fairly unimaginative. Offering us a breath of fresh air for our creative faculties, Swedish experimental electronic artist Vagantpoesi offers us a generous space to come up for air, and allow our curiosity to roam through inventive pastures of sound. “Unmetrical” by Vagantpoesi is capaciously layered with richly textured veneers and constructs immersed in mystery and intrigue. It independently drifts without a care for convention or rigid structural rules, and gives not a second thought to metaphorically jumping the wall we’ve collectively placed on music. In a word, refreshing. "Unmetrical" by Vagantpoesi is available now on most streaming music services as well as at https://perceptualtapes.bandcamp.com.
Michael Tangen
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Hobart, Australia's Perceptual Tapes label brings us more spools that have us struggling to remain vertical, with the blissed and otherworldly Unmetrical - the work of Copenhagen-based Swedish producer Edgar Ariza aka Vagantpoesi. This is a spacious soundworld that we can wander around inside with delicate sounds gently reverberating and echoing. Ariza processes a combination of synths, samples, voices and instruments to build a meticulously crafted sonic environment with meticulous detail.
Anthony Locke