An ongoing paean to exhalation, warmth and sustain, IDM is a duo from Dunedin, comprising Oliver of the Sky and The Aesthetics’ and Rory Storm’s Edie Eves. Oliver spreads a subtle array of frequencies, textures and vocal chords, opening out the palette with amorphous, nonplace field recordings, while Eves layers, strains, heats, gently cools and remixes solutions of pure oscillations, synth tones and decanted vocals.
Beats are sporadically released into the pool of sound as gentle punctuations, expanding with quiet determination, only to recede in stutters and spills, drown in reverb, or get lost over a horizon of dusty syncopation. Their debut Christchurch performance pledges a glowing cathedral of sound that envelops the listener, inviting a lullaby-like entry into deep repose.
WITCHUALS’ music ebbs between narcotic psych dub and feral, scattered drone pop, superimposing Junior Murvin vocal syrup over eternal bedroom grooves reminiscent of Wreck Small Speakers’ ‘Together We Sense’, Augusts Pablo’s ‘House of Dub Version’ and the Hendrix-haunted licks all through Carl Harvey’s ‘Ecstasy Of Mankind’. Its members include Adam Willetts, Sam Hamilton, LA Lakers and IRD.
