Raemus - Nine Days (63LP003)

Lakatos at archive.org
Amazing music. Love the sounds and the beats. How the energies is used to push the rythms and also made to trigger some movement way back in the soundscape is masterly done. And then, the melodic tracks comes in as a great contrast! Great work!

Disquiet
Raemus's superb Nine Days is that many tracks of deceptively simple music, raw percussive-oriented songs that leave plenty of room for the mind to wander about in. The individual instrumentals are, for the most part, as spare as minimal techno, but without the resounding dub that lends that genre its loungey depth and allure. Instead, Raemus settles, with a few exceptions, for the brittle. Most of the tracks follow the pattern of the lead entry, "Saturday Night," which is built from little more than a handful of acoustic knocks and pings, with the occasional gong-like reverberation — like a DJ doing his best to entertain a crowd during a blackout. Each entry adds something to the equation. The closing of "Friday Morning" pounds back and forth and into the distance while squeaky metallic sounds crowd the foreground. "Thursday Afternoon" adds a bass line and distant soundwash (perhaps a nod to the Brian Eno album of that name), but keeps to the reticent mode. "Monday Morning" drops in snippets of treated spoken words. "Tuesday Afternoon" stands out, trading percussion for minimalist organ sounds, the fugue riffs reminiscent of Philip Glass's early-career loft jams. And "Thursday Morning" applies those organ sounds to a thick consortium of drones.