Colin Thomas released a harrowing 16-track, each 16 minutes long, album, The Gauze Eyed Gaze Of Bracketed Air on September 16, 2023. The album recount’s the Kansas City experimental artist’s long and grieving journey of catering to a dementia patient while wearing masks everyday to hide the pain.
The album and the journey of catering to the sickness begins with the almost uncomfortably quiet “Early Onset,” as it pronounces gentle piano tones with overlapping prolonged silence. It moves on to “The Walk” which brings some dark, nuanced mist driving into the picture, merged with the slow keystrokes.
“The Doll Purchase” is an interesting track name that makes you wonder how the track is connected to a doll. It comes with deep nuanced murk, layered in it, are glinting chimes and creeping, low shimmering tingles. The gentle tones falls heavily on the gravity of the music, sounding almost like an enchanting reminder, as though hints of memory are flashing through, with perhaps the semblance of a “doll.”
“Sign On The Line” is unique for some special features integrated. What begins with the regular keyboard, slowly brings forth this cold techno atmospheric reverb over which a chattering sound effect buzzes as if a mouse is being constantly clicked. This friction continues in a more volatile manner in “Fabrication: Her’s, Its, Our’s,” with its clinking pulsations on top of gushing music harmoniously flowing underneath.
Finally, The Gauze Eyed Gaze Of Bracketed Air and the chapter ends with the sombre “Aphasia And Metacognition.” Amidst the music, floods the echoing and hallowing twinkles that its drizzling immersion, as if in a dungeon. This track symbolizes how dementia took away the artist’s family and closed the 38-year journey with his parents.
The Gauze Eyed Gaze Of Bracketed Air by Colin Thomas is available on all major music platforms.
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Review by: Naomi Joan