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Ummm 09:26
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Mangled 08:01
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Playtime 07:23
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Reverie 11:13
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“Hummm” is the fourth EP by Irish recording artist Robert Crosbie / Geisha. It is a companion piece to anther EP, “Turbulent Mediator”, released on the same day.

To call this music “electronic” is a misnomer, since much of it is made in an organic way – live instruments, played live, recorded without samplers and sequencers.

A multi-instrumentalist, Robert Crosbie uses guitars, keyboards, percussion, and live drums, to create a wall-of-sound psychedelic ambience coupled with deep dub bass and shoegaze-inspired sonic textures.

Opening track “Ummm” takes a dreamy vibraphone part and adds languid guitar and echoing drums, before a long, drifting, ambient guitar passage takes over, taking the track back full circle to its resolution.

“Mangled” is mostly guitar based, taking its cue from “A Storm in Heaven”-era Verve. Again, shoegaze guitars are to the fore, and an evocative sound picture is the result.

“Playtime” takes a gentle approach, with disjointed voices and childlike musical notes, before a dub house bass part takes the track in an unexpected direction, with reverbed bongos, bells, and drums, forming a gentle percussive backing.

Finally, “Reverie” dispenses any notion of this music being simply ‘electronica’ by being a full-on Pink Floyd inspired epic, with electric guitar solos and 70s keyboards, before a gear change bursts through with heavy bass, pounding drums, and spiraling guitars, making for climactic ending to the EP.

Over the course of Robert Crosbie / Geisha’s career, there have been experiments with ambient, trip hop, deep house, and glitchy soundscapes. “Hummm” represents a further extension of this experimental method to include widescreen shoegaze and an overall epic approach.

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released January 6, 2020

Performed and produced by Robert Crosbie, November 2019.
(c) 2020 iamgeisha records. GEI10

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Robert Crosbie / Geisha Dublin, Ireland

Robert Crosbie / Geisha is an electronic music artist from Dublin, Ireland. Robert Crosbie / Geisha has released 10 albums and 8 EPs since 2007.

Epic arrangements, ambient washes, shoegaze guitars, deep bass, beats, chimes, bells, choral samples, strings & piano, make up this cosmic music.

The sound of Geisha is truly unique. ... more

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