RhaD is an intriguing, audio-voyeuristic artist, who pulls from the spirits in the walls, moving from place to place to document it all.
RhaD's album, Ghost Music Library, epitomizes this idea, each title relaying the artist's rich, haunted gist:
1) Empty Buildings
2) Funeral Wake
3) Hotel conversation
4) After life recordings
5) L'occhio nel labirinto
6) Sunlight on the wave
7) Metaphysical
8) Come closer
9) Cabinet of curiosities
10) Dream Cycles
11) The cat in the drone box
It must be noted that some tracks are more earth-bound than others.
For example, "Empty Buildings" is soft, with a progression that's both sorrowful yet consoling, and in turn, ushers the mournful tonality of "Funeral Wake": again sad but relaxing, rolling as it does with bittersweet recollection, perhaps to be abandoned much like the aforementioned abodes.
"Hotel Conversation" pushes the concept toward a mechanical state, recording all the voices, subversive and surreptitious, that comprise what one wishes to hear, if only to call one's own.
The same can be said of "Sunlight on the wave," a contrasting lure that shines with euphonious danger, but then so does its pensive companion piece, "Come closer," which promotes tempting trails of another time, another age, wrapped in soothing static and wistful wails.
"L'occhio nel labirinto" feels the most grounded of the tracks, alluding to giallo scares planted along a winding labyrinth. Its road, its progression, paints a hardboiled detective on a search, but there's no guarantee he'll ever crack the truth.
"Cat in the the drone box" forges a comparable exploration or at least the sort of odyssey that toys with the brain, beckoning as would a precious commodity, but like a ball of yarn, the resonating refrain goes on and on.
Other parts of the album are more transcendental. For one, "After life recordings" is an eerie document spooled from specters. At the outset, its provocation could be bad or good, but the more one listens, the more one accepts the coexistence.
"Metaphysical" dangles the cosmic chains a few feet higher, with ubiquitous notes that poke and encage. Its an audio region between Heaven and Hell, but on this ambivalent page, only rueful Purgatory stays.
"Dream Cycles" redirects one to still another incorporeal peak. Through its angelic-vs-demonic chirps, mellifluous tentacles drag one toward the fiery threat of no return.
"Cabinet of curiosities" mates the album's duality. Some drawers unlock decorative journeys: one to Neverland, another to Wonderland ... yet another to Oz. One, however, mimics an idyllic, neighborhood stroll. Behind each tree, beneath each rock, visceral peculiarities flourish, rivaling those of any fantasy park.
One should consider Ghost Music Library essential and guiding, with moods that skid from highs to lows and lows to highs, all through earful observation. No matter the extreme, each track is a coveted gem in RhaD's ghostly dream:
https://unexplainedsoundsgroup.bandcamp.com/album/ghost-music-library
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