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At best they can share their music with a smaller like-minded community. I heard about Tryezz from an online friend. I had no idea where my friend had heard about this guy, but the music on offer was very encouraging. The YouTube account also had a preview for Tryezz's latest album, Solar Winds. While I was only treated to 30-second samples of each track, I knew I had to track down a download link.
The album opens with a Track 0 - 'The Take Off'. The album sticks to a theme of space travel, and the sound of this intro track really sets the mood. Slow pacing, coupled with a careful distort on the main melody. The track is short, but leads perfectly into the title track, 'Solar Winds'. The feeling of the album trying to mimic a 'soundscape album' starts to shine through - I'm getting images of drifting alongside space stations - and they seem to be throwing a disco inside.
I decided to take the album for a test drive, pushing it onto my iPod and going for a stroll. As I opened the front door, the intro for 'Fadertron 787' began with the sound effect of a heavy airlock door opening, and I smiled inside. Then it followed up with a surprisingly aggressive bass solo, notable grittier than the last two tracks, and I smiled even harder. 'Static' does its part in adding some technical variation by having the drumline consist entirely of white noise. The track seems to lack the catchy melodies its peers have, until near its end, by which point it doesn't feel quite enough.
'Saturn Rings' is where all thrusters start firing. With a steady and sticky bassline leading, an equally relaxed melody eases way in, heralded by twinkling bells. I was starstruck, halting in my stroll about town. Someone walking behind me had to walk around, and gave me a funny look. 'Supernova' made me full-out crash. It starts innocently enough with some quiet chord stabs, but then there's a pause -- followed by a gigantic punch of a main melody, loud and bright with carefully placed distorts on the longer notes, and a solo performed by what could only be a Jazz musician/astronaut. So caught up in this glorious combination, I failed to pay attention to where I was going and walked straight into the man who passed me earlier.
'Galatiscape' has the misfortune to follow the album's highlight, but it still does a great job at giving a more upbeat track, with a backing synth that cuts in and out in time to the drums. 'Visions' starts off discordant, and a little unpleasant, but after a brief pause, it sorts out its jumbled instruments to form a more conventional groove. It feels a bit like a punchy remix of 'Saturn Rings'; and although that puts it in good stead, it comes across as too familiar. Solar Winds finishes on 'First Orbit', dropping the pace, and going back to the more soundscape concept of the album's leading tracks. It's a smooth way to finish up, and stands as another one of my favourites after 'Supernova'.
Solar Winds came out of nowhere, but Electro-Funk has turned out to be a catchy and accessible genre, and it drove me to check out more of Tryezz's stuff; I entirely recommend you do the same.
Solar Winds can be purchased on iTunes, Amazon MP3, and through Tryezz's own website.
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