Merlak, Robert
Potopanje Brodova
The Croatian experimental virtuoso releases an album of reworks from a rusting USB stick residing at Rijeka's Museum of Modern Art. 'Potapanje Brodova' is a follow-up to Robert's 2020 album 'Finomehanika,' which was described by Steph Kretowicz for the wire as "delicately assembled combinations of organic and electronic sounds, wherein piano, field recordings and synths are made indistinguishable from one another in a layered motion of abstract ambience and gratifyingly crunchy textures". On this album, Robert continues to merge field recordings and synthesis, this time deploying a wider array of machines to grand effect.