Adarcah Ianqu's Tephra is an explosion of audio notions: what's good, bad and for better or worse, (un)acceptable in life, depending on where the pieces fall after one's conception.
The opening set, "fume" and "saliva", represents the finer fabric of existence. Their complementing sounds are soft but impending, budding like flowers, even if devoid of beauty. In Ianqu's subtle scratches, there lies his trademark ambivalence, and in such, the blossoming passages to elation and/or angst (peace and/or war), depending on what direction one steps (i.e. listens).
In one particular track, Ianqu combines the extremes in a much tighter way. For "port Said", he paints pleasantries and tribulations all within a single, echoing brushstroke. The feel here is carnival-like, though it never reaches a calliope's fruition. That's because the ascension remains rough-geared, but no less determined to reach a high note. That it stumbles is its identifiable splendor.
Much like "port Said", "botanic" and "ex" boast the grains of roustabout struggle, with the former implying elevation through percussive notes and through the latter's outdoorsy stride, a need to divorce all discordant connection. (In other words, one may embrace or avert what one dislikes.)
"Cockroaches vinyl" is a further extrapolation of this stressed effect, but its underbelly becomes more foreboding, introducing a series of profane murmurs and grooves, but despite the irreverence, it demands the imagination to chip away all derisive chatter.
"Told" and "buzzer 1996 {edit}" are pensive replies to the vinyl's blunt impressions, teetering on survivalist acceptance. The tracks feel like the music a warrior might choose before engaging battle: rueful on the surface, but fiery at the core. (And the resulting emotion is no doubt what many feel before starting any given work day.)
"Apolis sirens" and "jazz detune" conclude the album with encircling rumination, each gliding like a gradual waltz or unrepentant farewell. These selections acknowledge all that has come and gone in a life that was sometimes unpleasant but even so, well spent.
Tephra's pieces and passages are frank and factual, emotional and practical, dispersing a musical vantage as only the prolific Ianqu can germinate.
Listen and appreciate at
https://adarkashianckoox.bandcamp.com/?fbclid=IwAR3vxXlwfEJJB74brOQMXlpIhCgnffPWp45aVnkJJFDaVCDVnr9jy3_e3qs
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