Daily Yinz – Derek White – perhaps I should be more kind

The mastermind behind Mystic Seers‘ retro psychedelia also creates reflective instrumental music.

The pieces found on Derek White’s lates release, direct messages, were created on the fly in a dark room, and seek to instill meditative states within the listener. Tones coaxed from analog synths, cracked midis, acoustic instruments, and the world itself bloom and drift and swell like trains of thought floating free through an emptied mind. “perhaps I should be more kind” centers on a repetitive guitar figure whose warmhearted chord change, underpinned by gentle maraca, acts as a clock’s second hand tick, anchoring the flow of the piece as it accumulates layers of muted drones, grainy trills, alien warbles, and humming chants. It gives off the feeling of an elaborate windup diorama, created and set in motion by a mysterious hand, in which each element finds its place and moves in conjoined harmony with all others.

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