Qua is the moniker of Melbourne-based artist Cornel Wilczek. On this exceptional debut album, Qua brings together a collection of organic electronic compositions, both willfully naive and distinctly mature. A beautiful mixture of gentle organic chimes, electronic percussive clicks, organic field recordings and near-ambient guitar parts, the result is a crossover between the excessive, laboured craft of electronica and the spontaneous, immediate art of improvisation. Akin to genre-crossing organic contemporary sound artists like Nobukazu Takemura, Susumu Yokota, Manitoba and Jim O'Rourke. - Substrata |