The Role of Purity - Sapphire Slows (EP)

#1 The Role of Purity
Shimmering aura,
weightless,
celestial,
bubbling,
flower pads,
ambient,
11:37
#2 Speculation
Tingly,
bright bell,
blister in the sun,
gentle female vocals,
euphoria,
experimental,
4:55
#3 Mallets & Marbles
Magical,
shimmering,
science museum at night,
beautiful harmonies,
pentatonic melodies,
experimental,
5:22
#4 Silent Escape
Cosmic,
eerie,
delay,
twinkling,
gemstones falling from the sky,
experimental,
5:33

Artwork

Release date: 30 March 2017
Label: Nous Disques
Release code: Mundus001

Tokyo's Sapphire Slows makes her debut for the always impeccable Nous imprint and their new series mundus, with four exquisitely delicate, abstract studies in synthetic science. Opener 'The Role of Purity' is a mesmerising 11 plus minutes that drifts around in its own somnolent, stuporific terrain, gently fusing ambient devices into a seamless soundtrack. The B side sees a brace of slightly bolshier offerings in the form of 'Speculation' and 'Mallets & Marbles' in which Sapphire Slows allows her machines to feel more mutinous, all the while savouring the sophistication of their euphony. The EP comes to a close with 'Silent Escape' translucently stalking the eerie cosmos of electronica, outwardly tender, inwardly ferocious.