{"product_id":"akusmi-fleeting-future","title":"Akusmi - Fleeting Future","description":"\u003cp\u003eAkusmi is the work of Pascal Bideau, a French-born, New York-based composer who built this record's sound world almost by accident, after a trip to Bali left him fixated on gamelan and gong music. \u003cem\u003eFleeting Future\u003c\/em\u003e runs on that fixation: marimba, vibraphone, saxophone and gongs, locked into interlocking, cyclical patterns that owe as much to Steve Reich as they do to Southeast Asian percussion traditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMuch of the record's melodic material comes from the Slendro scale, one of gamelan's foundational tuning systems, which gives even the most minimal passages a slightly unfamiliar, tilted quality — familiar minimalist mechanics, running on an unfamiliar scale. It's an album that rewards close listening but works just as well as pure atmosphere, somewhere between contemporary classical minimalism, spiritual jazz and Fourth World music.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor fans of: Steve Reich, Nala Sinephro, Hiroshi Yoshimura.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tonal Union","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54881554465036,"sku":"12B-01662","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4459\/3932\/files\/3000x3000bb_9fbb6cf8-3870-4bb4-8b29-0476aa70d567.jpg?v=1785013561","url":"https:\/\/12-bar.com\/products\/akusmi-fleeting-future","provider":"12 Bar Music and Social","version":"1.0","type":"link"}