The listening experience behind ‘Teva’ is surprisingly meditative and hypnotic. It’s a fitting result for an artist who’s inspired by the nature around him. Hailing from Spain, producer and visionary emesh champions a truly organic perspective on music making. Although his roots can be found in alternative electronic music such as minimal and deep tech, the talented creative has now developed a more expansive and ethereal style, one that fuses otherworldly textures with subtle, noisy rhythmic patterns and a slow-moving arrangement.
We see the vision here: emesh is trying to let his music ‘breathe’ properly, using silence and space to his advantage. ‘Kallah’ is the perfect example of that. The first track on ‘Teva’ is a very functional dive into ambient-like percussions and leftfield electronica, with a certain natural allure (‘Teva’ is Hebrew for ‘nature’). It’s an aural concoction that’s partly a soundscape, and partly a synth-fuelled abstract exploration. It’s hard to remain neutral to the EP: dark, gloomy and ravey, the record is the perfect outlet for modern escapism, a moment of respite for an overly complex reality.
Delving deeper into his creative process, emesh explains: “I am influenced by many things, nature, experiences, situations. When composing, I often start with a sensation that produces a musical movement, I play something, and from there I start to build as I feel it, nothing pre-established. Sometimes it is a rhythm idea or a melody, at other times it is very fluid, I might leave it and then come back to it another day.”
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