English: "Drevesa se nam smejijo" ("The trees are laughing/smiling at us") is the latest full-length, the third one in the span of only two years, of the well-received Slovenian electronic music producer Matevž Kovačič, who operates under the pseudonym Slowmotion Livestream.
It is a portrait of wandering about the area between timelessness and nature's innate peacefulness in the form of kaleidoscopic voyages of synthetic and organic sound textures, free-floating melodies, samples, and calm as well as abrasive synthesizers. It echoes the legacy of ambient and minimalist music of the 20th century, inviting the listener into a state of unconscious and detached presence and reminding them of that fixed anchor point around which everything we know revolves.
The title of the album was inspired by an anonymous graffiti artist who left their message on one of the high-rise apartment buildings of Vič in the city of Ljubljana.
Slovensko: "Drevesa se nam smejijo" je najnovejši dolgometražec (že tretji v dveh letih) na domači sceni izjemno dobro sprejetega producenta elektronske glasbe Matevža Kovačiča, ki deluje pod nadimkom Slowmotion Livestream.
Je žanrsko nedoločljiv portret hoje po meji med brezčasnostjo in notranjim mirom narave v zvočni obliki kalejdoskopskega prelivanja sintetičnih ter organskih tekstur, lebdečih melodij, samplov in tako umirjenih kot mestoma kričečih sintetizatorjev. Še najbolj se opira na svetovno zapuščino ambientalne in minimalistične glasbe 20. stoletja, poslušalca pa vabi v stanje nezavednega in zamaknjene prisotnosti ter ga opominja na tisto nepremično sredinsko točko, okrog katere se vrti vse, kar poznamo.
Naslov albuma je navdihnil anonimni grafitar, ki je svoje sporočilo pustil na enem od viških blokov v Ljubljani.
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