Hausu Mountain – HAUSMO 88
M.GG unfolds an epic, multi-dimensional tapestry of terra-forming
electronics ranking among his most vividly abundant and ecologically
sound with ‘I Am the Last of That Green and Warm-Hued World’
“I Am The Last of That Green and Warm-Hued World came into existence
after M. Geddes Gengras’s father appeared to him in a dream and
suggested that he read Stephen King’s The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger.
The vivid, post-apocalyptic locales visited in the book, which range
from mountain ranges to atomic water pumping stations to
interdimensional portals, directly inform the auditory spaces that
Gengras draws into life with this album. While ambient music often
reaches the listener with a host of external signifiers meant to ground
the music in some semblance of the physical world (see: oceanic album
art, song titles that evoke specific images), Gengras’s music achieves a
rare degree of topographical intricacy by virtue of his wide, dense
mixes and the contrasting textures presented by his interlocking tiers
of synthesis.
Over the course of five extended sessions that range from 11 to 22
minutes each, the album sinks into passages of near-complete stasis and
crests into segments animated by intermittent bursts of melody and
muted, techno-adjacent drum tones, settling into discrete atmospheres
that percolate at different degrees of rhythmic complexity. All the
while, M. Geddes Gengras allows individual elements to generatively
interact and twist around each other to the point that no two moments
present the same exact sounds. A far cry from willfully repetitive,
loop-based ambient music, I Am The Last of That Green and Warm-Hued
World extends before the listener as a fluctuating, self-contained
biome, with the components of each composition carefully stacked
together and charged with their own trajectory through time and imagined
physical space.”
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