An illuminated atmospheric beauty, “Double Helix” is another standout release from American–German composer Eric Angelo Bessel. The track comes via his upcoming 7” EP Mirror at Night B-Sides, the follow-up to last year’s excellent album, which caught our ears with its high-quality productions — from the effervescent glow of “Snow Globe” to the more nighttime-set unease of “Scavengers.” Now, Bessel expands that release’s gorgeous realm with two new instrumental b-sides, including “Double Helix” — which he describes as feeling “excavated from time itself—ancient and futuristic at once, drifting through memory like a half-remembered dream.”
Luminous synths emanate with a starry-eyed quality, intertwining a steady glowing and pulsating momentum as the soundscape flows with graceful precision. An ethereal, hypnotic charm doesn’t let up. A more blaring effervescence appears with resonant immersion around midpoint, resembling an electronic-embracing Philip Glass or Susumu Yokota as the synth find a hypnotic balance between stab-like pulsations and dreamy elegance. Bessel showed a fantastic ability to straddle both lushly understated mystique and climactic swells within Mirror at Night, and “Double Helix” continues that knack for atmospheric blissfulness. Presently based in Portland, Oregon, Bessel crafts a spellbinding atmospheric allure throughout both “Double Helix” and its preceding full-length.
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