Nikolajevtitle – Transplant Rejection (2022)

The Estonian artist Nikolajev describes the music on »Transplant Rejection« as »almost dark ambient« and it is easy to understand why. From the first minutes, light melodies and streaky sound textures engage in a contradiction similar to those of magnets: Attraction and mutual repulsion alternate almost contingently, the mood tips from one moment to the next into the opposite and stabilises in the next but one again in the middle of these tension forces. Over only seven tracks, a musical panorama unfolds that functions as an atmospheric game of opposites.