PREMIERE : Afterlife - Metacosm

Les Yeux Orange

It’s a pleasure to welcome back Balearic maestro, Afterlife, with his latest edition of robustly modern thinking entitled ‘Metacosm’. Steve Miller’s latest offering touches, teases, and caresses the soul like a long-lost friend recounting glorious, heart-warming stories filled with golden memories. ‘Metacosm’ is an intoxicating fusion of analogue and modular ambience from the master of the genre sounds like one of the most rewarding experiences your senses will enjoy as summer draws to its enviable conclusion. Much like the music transformation and the power of change remain the main ingredients as one season dissolves into the next, notes play like a never-ending series of fully textured conversations between sounds and their consequences, forming as an escape route to elsewhere or through being in tune as part of an ongoing meditative process. The stories expressed here are likewise purely heartfelt and refined with the history of lived-in experiences. Steve Miller produces music of such a high calibre that this selection compiled from key releases across 2024 readily testifies to the artist's innate understanding of the sound of music and its fully charged potential to effect constructive change. Bathed in relaxed temptation each of the seven numbers occurs brilliantly in its own right from the intensely rich landscapes highlighting the exotic title track ‘Metacosm’, to the Caribbean flavours of ‘Summer of Dub’. From the dreamy bliss of ‘I Saw You Dancing on Mars’ to the ecstasy-filled joy of ‘Baja’. Try the exquisitely breezy electric piano informing ‘Ice Nine’ and the positive punch of ‘Chickens’, not to forget the beautiful sculptures of ‘Tonal’ which redefine Afterlife’s exemplary celebration of freedom of expression as more than a way of life. Completing this masterclass in the serene is also the notion of being defiantly individual while engaging in the art of shared, brilliant artistry.