by: Sean Boy
Lately it's come to my attention that judging books by their covers, or in this case, CDs by their covers, is not only not a bad thing, but a helpful tool in wading through the sea of music I often find myself pleasantly inundated with. Jivaro's cover is a photograph of the conical shaped foam sheets that line the walls of recording studios. A monochromatic blue tints the photograph. It's simple, repetitive and rhythmic. The music parallels this design. Bare-boned Detroit techno dominates with simple synthesizer melodies popping in and dropping out between the beats. The design, like the music, is consistent throughout: front, back, and in between with little variation. The angle of the albums photographs are skewed just enough as to provide a sense of depth, a slight twist of perspective. Musically Jivaro, aka Henrik Dahl, skews his music with just enough ambient and dub textures, and a smattering of IDM glitches to keep it out of techno's pure camp. Dahl professes the most important aspect of his music is "to keep experimenting with sounds and rhythms. Hopefully, this will lead up to creating the perfect example of a style of music that I'd like to call ivarodelia." It will take much more experimenting before Jivaro delivers on his new genre.
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