And then suddenly, to stumble upon an envelope holding a bunch of releases you hadn’t seen or heard before. It can always happen, especially when a label sends you some 30 releases in one batch. It happened with the initial ‘physical copies” batch of what has become my favourite 3″ label in the world, Inner Demons Records. And in that final envelope, the first one I randomly got was Andreas Davids’ “Beautiful Isolation”.
‘Beautiful Isolation is about the difference between being alone and being lonely’, says the promo text. One gives you strength; the other takes it away. One generates creativity, and the other swallows it and leaves you empty-handed. And without losing the strength of the composition, Andreas can show both sides of the medal. The emptiness of loneliness and the gorgeous harmonic structures when being alone give you strength. The minimalism of just a few notes creates harmony in acting and emotion, versus short staccato singular sounds layered upon each other, creating chaos inside your head because it’s coming from all sides, limiting you in who you are and what you do.
Even with a concept many other artists have used in the experimental (but also non-experimental) music industry, Andreas seems to balance the two states of mind perfectly. The result is a 20-minute ambient, experimental piece that turns the good and the bad into something beautiful.
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