Six Waves By Thierry David

 

Six Waves

By

Thierry David

Written by

Steve Sheppard

 

The mood of today was sullen; the clouds had ganged up upon the sun and banished him from the sky, whilst all around the leaden skies hovered like some darkening shroud of a dystopic landscape, so I stopped gazing at the rain and pressed play on my media player and listened to Six Waves by Thierry David, an artist that over the years I have listened to him, has taken me to some thrillingly ambient locations, and on this wet Wednesday morning I can now escape to another, within his latest release entitled, Six Waves.

The opening track of this six piece album is entitled Causality, and here we start our voyage together, a journey of ambient electronic bliss that drifts on through soft synth pads, superior keyboard creations, and ambient textures that even Eno would have been proud of.

This is a fluent release; one that could take us from the very depths of our oceans to deep space and beyond, my personal favourite exploration of sonic sound was track two entitled Into the Wave Axis. This reminded me greatly of Mountains by Kevin Kendle, here is a track that illustrated for me just what a good composer David is; the hovering shimmering aspects of tone here were somnambulant in their musical progression, one could easily use this as a meditative construction, and find themselves slowly moving towards a greater peace.

There is so much here to enjoy, one of my pleasures is listening to other electronic musicians, and becoming inspired to produce more flowing and inspiring music myself, here on offerings like Elliptical Tales, we have such a track, again its meditative qualities are beautiful, the soft organic structures and keyboard synth motifs are so deeply beautiful, that whilst listening one could easily get lost within its stunning musical cosmos, and never want to come back.

A second long form musical narrative is now upon us and called Ultrasonic Vibes, this arrangement is a totally different dimension of tone and timbre, the more electronic energies can be felt here, but still that sense of security through comforting sounds can be found. The steady onwards progression on keyboards kicks the whole composition up a notch, in the same way that Geigertek used to do in his days with the AD music label.

Submarine Whispers is our penultimate creation, and the artist once more manifests something new with this arrangement, as a sense of mystery, imagination and apprehension, this can be felt within the confines of this most illustrious offering. The slow procession and the more obscure deeper tones truly give us a feeling of depth and darkness as we drift along our way.

The concluding musical narrative is entitled The Sixth Wave, this final exploration of resonance creates sense of movement, its delightful ambient expression gives us echoes of vast soundscapes for us to roam in freely within and enjoy. This is without a shadow of a doubt, a most inspirational ending to an album of this elk that I have come across in years.

Six Waves by Thierry David in my view is one of the finest electronic ambient instrumental works I have heard this decade, each offering is memorable, effortless and eloquent, and is a charming ride of superior quality within this huge genre. I have albums from the artist dating back to 2012, but I have to state that in my view, this is the best work by the musician thus far, and I am absolutely sure that fans of followers of this genre are going to agree with me, as it surges up the charts.