CO2 by kel.audio

Our planet is burning, the skies are being filled with greenhouse gases that are raising the temperature of the earth.

This concept album is a contemplation of some of these gases.

Raw and visceral, the ephemeral beauty of nature even in the process of destruction is reflected in swirling gaseous bursts of noise, rich evolving tones, eerie vocal chants and devastating drones all set against dark gnarly saturated and distorted beats.

At times unsettling, challenging, but ultimately a message of awareness, hope and a call to make a change.

"I love this album. 'CO2' is an audial terrain of corroded grandeur, where distortion reigns as both texture and metaphor. The album’s sonic palette is unrelentingly tactile: rusted edges, gaseous swells, and saturated rhythms coalesce into a bristling, crackling vitality. A beautiful, sensitive approach to distortion and noise serves as a lifeblood, forming an intriguing dialectic of abrasion and resonance. But amidst this rugged landscape, expansive passages and stretches of drone unfold like remote skylines.

Each tone evolves organically, shifting between densities with a momentum that feels less engineered than elemental, as though summoned from the alchemy of entropy itself. The production to me is highly immersive without sounding overworked - rich with overtones that shimmer within their clouds of rhythmic, harmonic and textural complexity. Overall, I hear 'CO2' as a tribalistic, elemental electrical storm: volatile, uncompromising - and suffused with rarefied beauty."

- Robert Logan

kel is an electronic musician and sound synthesist who uses hardware modular synthesisers to create beats, tones and textures.