Portradium
Transatlantyk
Description
A project conceived entirely as the soundtrack to an (imagined) film, integrating screenplay and genre attributes (packaging, etc.) – vol. 2 of the "Movies In Your Head" collection exploring the imagination of sound and music in cinema. While rooted in electronica culture, Transatlantyk stands out with its unclassifiable style. In eighteen strange constructions traversed by motifs derived from a perverted Ennio Morricone, the album oscillates between detached psychedelia, subtle irony, and overly internalized energy that breaks free in unexpected noise ruptures. The whole creates a delicious climate of instability, in tense balance between pop tendencies and digital experimentation.
"A strikingly recondite project which has given rise to some gratifyingly edgy music. (...) This modernistic and intriguing score is genuinely gripping." (The Wire)
"A high-precision sonic mechanism, establishing atmospheres of captivating strangeness." (Mouvement)
"A big and pleasant surprise to find this artist in such great form. For lovers of subtle and different electronica." (EtherReal.com)
"Portradium's music captures this in-between, this interzone where anxiety rubs against a feeling of plenitude. The listener will graft onto it at will images of a distant planet or an airport terminal, a futuristic megalopolis or a desert region, an experimental film or a B-movie. In his own way, Portradium is a conquistador of electronics, the visitor of a terra incognita with still uncertain borders." (Chronic'art)