Ondas Horizontales, by Tambores En Benirras

Ondas Horizontales

by Tambores En Benirras

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Dobson Stunningly beautiful - top marks :-) literally cannot wait for the record to pop through my letterbox now, for me this is a 'must have' on vinyl type album Favorite track: Un Placer Celestial (Reprise).

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1.	Mi Sueño Vive En Reverb 09:01	buy track
2.	Estrellas En Mastella 07:44	buy track
3.	Generadora De Rayos 04:49	buy track
4.	Templos Del Sol 06:54	buy track
5.	Dias Mas Brillantes 05:43	buy track
6.	Molokono 07:30	buy track
7.	Alma Hablando 05:59	buy track
8.	Extensor Entregado 06:05	buy track
9.	Ondas Horizontales 07:28	buy track
10.	Un Placer Celestial (Reprise) 05:03	buy track

about

A month after the release of his debut album as Tambores En Benirras, 2021’s fabulous Orbe Dotodo, Graham Newby’s life changed forever. After years living with a visual impairment, his sight had deteriorated so much that he was declared “registered blind”. For a man who had spent decades dividing his time between travelling, DJing, running clubs and lengthy sessions in his own studio, it was a genuinely life-changing moment.

It was against this backdrop, and the need to alter his working methods, that Ondas Horizontales, the second Tambores En Benirras album took shape. Inspired by a mixture of daydreaming, visualisation, immersion in other people’s music (escapism that provided mood enhancement, rather than a specific set of ideas) and long periods spent soaking up the sun in Ibiza, the album is the most vividly detailed, sonically colourful, and sun-soaked collection that Newby has released to date.

Newby’s declining sight forced him to stop spending long spells staring at a screen and undoubtedly slowed down the production process. Yet it also allowed him to reconnect with his emotions, appreciate the storytelling and mood-shifting potential of music, and mine mind’s eye memories of places and spaces that have meant much to him over the years.

The results are undeniably stunning. Designed with horizontal listening in mind, the set distils a range of musical and real-life inspirations –or, as he puts it, “ambient soundtracks, cosmic journeys, Balearic rhythms and poolside sessions” – into ten mesmerising and magical tracks; an undulating, slow-motion journey that’s as breath-taking as it is beguiling.

Newby sets the tone with ‘Mi Sueno Vibe En Reverb’, a swelling, slow-burn ambient masterpiece that tiptoes between hope and melancholia, before flitting between imaginary sunset soundtracks (‘Estrellas En Mastella’, where lilting pedal steel sounds, bubbling electronics and shuffling breakbeats catch the ear), kaleidoscopic sun-up beats (the gorgeous warmth of ‘Generadora De Reyos’), enveloping beatless soundscapes (‘Templos Del Sol’, a drowsy drift in becalmed waters under the heat of the mid-afternoon sun), and dubby, loved-up lusciousness (‘Mokono’).

As the album progresses, bobbing and weaving on an ocean of vibrant chords, pulsing melodies and heart-stopping melodies, there’s no sign of Newby’s inspiration waving. ‘Alma Hablando’ channels the spirit of mid-80s ‘worldbeat’ and douses it in layers of Balearic bliss, while ‘Extrensor Entragado’ recalls the head-nodding haziness of his best Gripper productions of old while combining them with the musical equivalent of a humid summer breeze. Then there’s the mood-enhancing joy of the album’s superb title track –a mission statement of sorts – and the life-affirming post trip-hop/Balearic fusion of ‘Un Placer Celestial (Reprise)’, where the influence of his old friend Aim is clearly evident.

A serious sonic step-up from its predecessor and a future Balearic classic in its’ own right, Ondas Horizontales marks the start of a new musical and personal journey for its creator. It is, in his words, not the end of an era, but the start of a new one.

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released September 29, 2023

Sleeve art by Johnny Kavannagh [Instagram @theboymelancholy]
Graphic design by Mr Vincent
Mastering by Simon Mills

Recorded and produced at East Beach Studios, Barrow-in-Furness, England, UK & Cala Mastella, Ibiza, ES
Mixed and arranged at East Beach Studios, Barrow-in-Furness, England & Club Media, Amsterdam, NL
All tracks written, produced and arranged by Graham Newby [Instagram @djgripper]

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Tambores En Benirras IB, Spain

Tambores En Benirras is the alias of Graham Newby AKA DJ Gripper, a long-serving DJ/producer based not on one of the Balearic Islands, but in Barrow-in-Furness, an industrial UK coastal town.
Newby has been DJing & making music for decades. In the 00s he released on ATIC, Fat City & Grand Central Records. He is involved in B.U.M.S, a club space inspired by David Mancuso’s legendary loft parties. ... more

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