Cross-Continental Soundscapes – Hidden Deep by Afterlife & Moonseed
- Ehlers Music
- 29 abr
- 1 Min. de lectura
There are collaborations, and then there are convergences. Hidden Deep, the new album from Afterlife and Moonseed, is the latter—less a meeting of styles than a merging of worlds. Spanning continents, philosophies, and generations of musical tradition, it’s a record that defies category and rewards close, immersive listening.
What’s instantly striking is the way the album lives in contrast: East meets West, analog meets digital, motion meets stillness. “Hidden Deep” opens the journey with slow, oceanic swells of synth and melody, suggesting not arrival but descent—into memory, into self, into quiet. Moonseed’s background in Chinese ethnic instrumentation emerges not as texture but as language, woven into the fabric of each track.
Afterlife’s Balearic legacy lends the album its atmosphere—sunset-warm, deeply spatial, and emotionally fluid. But this isn’t nostalgia. Tracks like “Xuan Pin” and “Things Will Flourish” show forward-thinking rhythm work and a refusal to lean on past formulas. The percussion is crisp, minimal, and intentional, always in dialogue with melody.
What holds everything together is trust. These artists never overcrowd the soundscape. Every element—from a distant erhu phrase to a bassline that barely grazes the surface—is allowed its own space to exist. The result is a record that doesn’t push emotion onto the listener; it opens a space for it to arise naturally.
Released by Subatomic UK on May 9, Hidden Deep is a rare thing: a truly collaborative album where the conversation between cultures and creators is as beautiful as the music itself.
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