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Palta

Palta has been played over 40 times on NTS, first on 21 September 2016. Palta's music has been featured on 43 episodes.

With a new record for Jonny Nash’s Melody as Truth label, this time under his Palta alias, Natal Zaks reveals yet another side to his sound. Until now, his music has tended to be rooted in ’90s dance dialects like West Coast deep house or flickering electro/freestyle hybrids, but here he moves away from the dancefloor entirely, putting pulse over rhythm and atmosphere over melody. Just five tracks and 31 minutes long, Universel is essentially a mini-LP (a favorite format of Melody as Truth’s founder), but it’s still immersive and enveloping despite its brevity.

Universel’s opener is as far out as Zaks has ventured yet. With his synth tuned to an organ-like patch, a fistful of chords provides the watery backdrop to free-flowing drumming on deep, boomy toms; raindrop-like synth blips and the flicker of a ticking sprinkler lend to the misty air. There’s no discernible meter or tempo, just a wide arc of glistening pitter-patter scattered through the track. The freeform approach calls to mind the New York group Georgia’s “Ama Yes Uzume”; shorn of context, it would be easy to imagine it as something off a no-name new-age cassette thrifted from some remote town in the California redwoods.

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Palta

Palta has been played over 40 times on NTS, first on 21 September 2016. Palta's music has been featured on 43 episodes.

With a new record for Jonny Nash’s Melody as Truth label, this time under his Palta alias, Natal Zaks reveals yet another side to his sound. Until now, his music has tended to be rooted in ’90s dance dialects like West Coast deep house or flickering electro/freestyle hybrids, but here he moves away from the dancefloor entirely, putting pulse over rhythm and atmosphere over melody. Just five tracks and 31 minutes long, Universel is essentially a mini-LP (a favorite format of Melody as Truth’s founder), but it’s still immersive and enveloping despite its brevity.

Universel’s opener is as far out as Zaks has ventured yet. With his synth tuned to an organ-like patch, a fistful of chords provides the watery backdrop to free-flowing drumming on deep, boomy toms; raindrop-like synth blips and the flicker of a ticking sprinkler lend to the misty air. There’s no discernible meter or tempo, just a wide arc of glistening pitter-patter scattered through the track. The freeform approach calls to mind the New York group Georgia’s “Ama Yes Uzume”; shorn of context, it would be easy to imagine it as something off a no-name new-age cassette thrifted from some remote town in the California redwoods.

Original source Last.fm

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Palta
Melody As Truth2017
Universel
Palta
Melody As Truth2017
På Hovedet I Seng
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12th Isle2018
Fingerdansen
Patla
No Hands2016
Sagens Natur
Palta
Extra Help2019
Belsha
Palta
Extra Help2019
Det Hurtige Track
Palta, Ti
Gravity Graffiti2017
Forårets Skørhed
Palta, Ti
12th Isle2018
Optagelse 16A
Palta
Melody As Truth2017
At Ville
Palta
Melody As Truth2017