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Crafted entirely on an analog monophonic synthesizer with no overdubs, Pices Monophoniques is a tribute to simplicity in an era of limitless digital possibilities. Since his debut album, Music For Prophet (Les Disques du Festival Permanent, 2017), Majorca-born composer Marc Meli, now a long-time resident of Brussels, has been redefining the contours of electronic music through a minimalist, reductionist approach. Much like a solitary hike through the vastness of mountains, where one carries only the essentials, Melis work invites listeners on a journey stripped of excess, focusing instead on the purity of sound and intention.

The album navigates the boundary where the quest for an uninhibited emotional response intersects with the mechanical sounds generated by synthesizer circuitry. Despite being a collection of beatless tracks, a pulse occasionally surfaces, like in the closing piece, “224 Steps. A sharp sequence blended with multiple delays and reverbs creates the vaporous celestial specter of multiple voices in “Illusions of Polyphony”, while “choes et Fantasies” conjures the illusion of dual harmony. The expansive reverbs and silences between the euphoric synth phrases in “Overture” transport us to an imaginary majestic landscape shaped out of an electric field. “Resonances,” a one-note drone-like sequence, embodies the album’s aims as a series of resonances created with the synth filter emerge from the fundamental note.