SA PA - Ambeesh

Sa Pa's intent is clear: to make the lesson of Chain Reaction feel current, a proverbial blend of watery textures and telluric frequencies. “Ambeesh”, the Australian producer's fifth album, gathers material recorded between 2014 and 2019, conceived as a sequel to his debut on the Forum label. Something close to the hushed materiality of Porter Ricks and to the maniacal micro-sculpting of the Astral Industries catalogue, transfigured into a darker, more contemporary vision.

To call this merely dub techno is reductive: the quintessential dub chord is less a finished formula than a synesthetic vibration, and what matters is the introspection, the liquid darkness (“Ride High”). We are dealing with a broken beat that takes the shape of a seismic tremor over which algorithmic sequences move, a methodical pulsing on the border between Andy Stott and DeepChord. From those pioneers, Sa Pa retains an organic yet analytical essence, with a marked love for polyrhythms, surrealisms and derealized themes.

Tape manipulation is the order of the day (“Irradiate”), accompanied by restless, alienating field recordings, like a disguised maximalism operating within a reductionist grammar (“Lexanconical”). The formula doesn't stray far from “In A Landscape”, but it recomposes itself in a new perceptual dimension. A crackling, shifting archive that sounds alive and abstract, as if it were an acousmatic experiment conceived yesterday. Sa Pa's is escapist music, yet not designed for post-psychedelic rituals: like a forgotten club on the seabed of the mind, it is aimed at those who seek abstraction in listening, letting themselves drift through a labyrinth of details and suggestions.

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01/08/2025