Jimi Tenor recorded all of Multiversum in his home studio in Helsinki and has kept things nice and minimal. This is an album of cool modern jazz with a soul and organic techno edge to it. There is also a book Omniverse Sounds Sights and Stories to accompany the album that can be ordered at the same time as the album.
The album opens with Slow Intro that sounds like the theme music to a bad 70's sci-fi detective film or tv show starring Peter Falk or someone similar. This leads into Life Hugger that has already been out as a single it sounds like it could be from the soundtrack of an update to Belle & Sebastian, it has that bucolic sound, as if the wild horses should be running by, then the dancefloor beat comes in, as Jimi sings about Hugging the trees and generally looking out for your fellow man, along with a classic flute funk solo.
Jazznouveau is a proper Jazz club beard stroker, very laid back opening, it opens out into a bright sunny tune to sip cocktails and smoke your pipe too.
Uncharted Waters has a sumptuous flute intro and some almost dance style percussion, as it weaves its way through those waters and helps us all float downstream together as the keyboards mutate and some odd things happen including the almost spoken word vocals and a spaced-out flute part set against treated backing vocals.
Baby Free Spirit was the second single from the album and is a dancefloor techno pop song in praise of his Baby Having a Free Spirit, that for large parts is just the rhythm track, with a bass line added to the sparse percussion, as if it's ready made for a small cadre of re-mixers to do their thing and make fuller versions of this song, then the flute solo comes in to elevate things somewhat.
Monday Blue feels like it's made for that Monday Morning come down feeling, as you try to not feel hungover as you go to work, at the end of a full-on weekender and the percussion sends signals to your brain it's about time to work once more.
Bass Kalimba Dance has a cool afro-centric cocktail jazz dance feel to it, like you are watching a dance show rather than up and dancing yourself. Birthday magic is all about seeing someone you fancy naked for the first time and what it does for you, this is sweet soul seduction time and an ode to skinny dipping.
Gare De Noir is late night jazz for wandering through rain spattered streets looking for the train station in the middle of a black night. It owes something to Bernard Hermann but with some sort of Sun Ra style electronic keyboard flourishes.
RajuRaju is probably the most dancefloor club ready tune on the album with skittery percussion, a sumptuous keyboard part and some deep brass stabs.
The Way To Kuusijarvi sounds like they are going by sled with percussion that sounds like the paws marching through the snow as other worldly sounds accompany you on the journey.
The album closes with Bad Trip Good and will help make sure that whatever you're on while listening to this does all sorts of weird things to your mind as the bleeps and 80's computer games noises re-arrange your brain and you go off on several tangents at once, a brilliantly out of it closing number.
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