Merlak, Robert

Finomehanika

An essential repress of the monumental 2020 album. 'Finomehanika' was Rijeka-based Robert's first solo release in two decades since 'Albumski' on pioneering avant-garde techno label Phthalo which put him on the map next to fellow artists as diverse as Dntel, Daedelus and James 'V/Vm' Kirby. Merging piano and field recordings, Merlak moves between musique concrete, ambient, and neo classical, crafting great layers of depth and ambience combining the frayed melancholia of Vladislav Delay's 'Multila' with the strangely real-sounding yet otherworldly mechanics of Autechre during their 'Confield' years. All the while sounds from the natural world prevent us from drifting too far into the abstract, keeping us grounded in a fragmented, confusing but familiar environment. What makes Finomehanika all the more impressive is that it was produced in the early 2000s pre-broadband-Internet, post-war Croatia with sparse equipment.

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Format
LP - 1 disk
Release date
04-10-2024
Label
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552058
EAN
5050580834835
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Exp. 04-10-2024
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TRACKS

Disk 1

1. PAO MD
2. POGLED IZ SOBE
3. OBRAZI, DIO DRUGI
4. MAJKA
5. BILO JEDNOSTAVNO
6. BIJELI VAZ
7. UDAH I LED I IZDAH
8. SKELE