Conrad Greenleaf is a Sydney born and bred musician. He’s probably better known as a member of Stressless and Richard In Your Mind, but also makes his own charmingly unconventional solo music.
The new single ‘Mount Analogue’ is a striking introduction to his new forthcoming album Dreamtape, with its opening palette of aquatic bleeps setting the scene before a loping trip-hop breakbeat arrives to anchor the abstraction and carry it forward into the psychedelic mist. Guest vocalist Brent Griffin (aka SPOD) voice provides the human element; a filtered, hazy and shimmering mantra of new age expressionism.
Dreamtape is Greenleaf’s second album of ambient music, following 2017’s Shimmering Twins, but it’s sonically very distant from that record. While Shimmering Twins was awash with warm synthesizers (both analogue and digital) and largely made on computer, Dreamtape is a far more organic affair.
Recorded mostly on cassette 4-track the album is full of guitars, bass, mellow keyboards, sound effects and tape manipulation. While mostly dreamy and beatless, the album takes a detour into trip-hop territory on ‘Mount Analogue’, the closest thing to a ‘song’ on the album, perhaps the strongest thing Greenleaf has yet recorded.
Ambient music too often feels tethered to the digital realm. On Dreamtape, Greenleaf has created a hallucinatory, tactile and intimately heartfelt set of compositions. An organic sonic balm for both the mind and body.
Stream / purchase ‘Mount Analogue’ here.
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