![]() ![]() Peteri’s Newworldaquarium draws on the profound and mundane minutiae of real-world existence, refracted through the fuzzy gauze of nostalgia, to shape his new submerged seascape. His barely audible mantras cling to the slow creep of his beat like an anemone, the meaning a subliminal ink to be ingested through the gills. “Step by step, elevate your mind… It’s not just through space you move… Light… Darkness… A simple gesture…” Peteri explicitly projects himself into this ecosystem on the title track of The Dead Bears. It’s a necessary quality of real music, and real life – not an airbrushed, burnished ideal but a porous, textured thing that responds to stimulus and yields surprises in return. The imagined worlds Jochem Peteri creates, from the internal kingdom of his ambient masterpiece Strike to the outwardly projected terrain of Newworldaquarium, are places of wonder and beauty, but there are nooks and crags that cast shade across the topography. Nothing so one-dimensionally perfect could ever work, and attempts to depict it in art are largely one-dimensional affairs in turn. Utopia is an unrealistic ideal at the end of a rainbow.
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