Niagara – Catedral Gótica – LP

Príncipe Discos

One sometimes thinks of Niagara as this entity that’s always been there. Their released output is considerable but the recorded and  unreleased output amounts to a vast, sprawling body of work  inscribed with the same personality and pretty much the same consequence. So a new album by Niagara. Is it new? Or is it  timeless?

Dozens of tracks dating from 7-8 years ago appeared on our inbox with the generic title “Catedral Gótica“. At first it sounds as a continuation of their celebrated “De Motu” set, declared by the opening overlapping piano loops and dry techno beat. On to a neurotic, tense, circular, compact, minimal “maximal” techno  expression, looping your thoughts until strings resolve the matter. Proceeding, we get the feeling of a careful distillation of much electronicmusic from the past, escaped from uncertain origins and  given new identities. A rough, scratched pattern forms a dub  soundscape; suspended, beatless grooves with all the motion implicit  in dance music; stories to tell (to hear) on the edge of the dancefloor; ambient motion ending in a superimposition of effects that just leave
you there, hanging. And that’s the end. An album of feelings, textures.