Tomas Mutina Serenades
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In Serenades, Tomas Mutina offers not so much an album as a luminous sketchbook of sonic meditations - each track a fleeting thought captured mid-bloom, a breath held between emotion and synthesis. Born from a year-long dialogue with modular machinery, these compositions do not unfold—they unveil. They whisper rather than declare. Here, the modular synthesizer is not an instrument but a sentient partner, responding in pulse and texture to Mutina’s inner weather.
Each piece drifts like mist, forming then dispersing. "Ambi-ant-world" glows with shifting harmonics and subtle timbral winds, as if light itself were refracted through time. The cascading pulses of "Morph-o-genes vol.1" resemble thought in motion—fluid, unfinished, fragile. And in "Rand-om-strums," delicacy becomes punctuation: brief, breathlike gestures suspended in silence. The tracks hypnotize, not with repetition, but with reverence - tones unfold like petals, unsure if they’ll bloom or fade. There is rhythm, yes, but it feels incidental, like the heartbeat of a dream. "Ne-mur-nysh," the album’s closing opus, moves like memory—flickering, expanding, collapsing in on itself with elegiac grace.One might call Serenades ambient, but that would be reductive. This is music for inner rooms, for quiet awakenings. It could score a theater piece of shadows, a dream untold, or simply the soft hum of solitude. In its essence, it is a sonic diary—personal, reflective, and unafraid of silence.
Mutina doesn’t compose around silence; he composes with it. And that, perhaps, is what makes Serenades feel so achingly human.
Track list:
Morph-o-genes vol.1
Ambi-ant-world
From-another_mother
Harm-o-night
Morph-o-genes vol.2
Rand-om-strums
Rings-of-Saturn
First-call-last
Atra-we-leer
Ne-mur-nysh
Release date: May 2, 2025
https://tomasmutina.bandcamp.com/album/serenades
Each piece drifts like mist, forming then dispersing. "Ambi-ant-world" glows with shifting harmonics and subtle timbral winds, as if light itself were refracted through time. The cascading pulses of "Morph-o-genes vol.1" resemble thought in motion—fluid, unfinished, fragile. And in "Rand-om-strums," delicacy becomes punctuation: brief, breathlike gestures suspended in silence. The tracks hypnotize, not with repetition, but with reverence - tones unfold like petals, unsure if they’ll bloom or fade. There is rhythm, yes, but it feels incidental, like the heartbeat of a dream. "Ne-mur-nysh," the album’s closing opus, moves like memory—flickering, expanding, collapsing in on itself with elegiac grace.One might call Serenades ambient, but that would be reductive. This is music for inner rooms, for quiet awakenings. It could score a theater piece of shadows, a dream untold, or simply the soft hum of solitude. In its essence, it is a sonic diary—personal, reflective, and unafraid of silence.
Mutina doesn’t compose around silence; he composes with it. And that, perhaps, is what makes Serenades feel so achingly human.
Track list:
Morph-o-genes vol.1
Ambi-ant-world
From-another_mother
Harm-o-night
Morph-o-genes vol.2
Rand-om-strums
Rings-of-Saturn
First-call-last
Atra-we-leer
Ne-mur-nysh
Release date: May 2, 2025
https://tomasmutina.bandcamp.com/album/serenades
