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Paradise Cinema: Returning, Dream review – walking a fine balance between chaos and euphoria
Portico Quartet saxophonist Jack Wyllie teams up with three percussionists for a thunderous, west African-influenced second album
Hang drum player Nick Mulvey departed in 2011 to become a successful singer-songwriter, while saxophonist Jack Wyllie is part of two projects: experimental electronica trio Szun Waves and the west African-influenced Paradise Cinema. Opening with the bubbling, pitch-shifting sounds of the tama (talking drum) on A Morning in the Near Future, the album progresses through soft flute melodies and layered synth loops on the title track and ambient numbers Tide and Nowhere, Home. Puncturing the meandering focus of their slower numbers, Wyllie soars over the thunder of all three percussionists playing at once, walking a fine balance between chaos and euphoria.
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