Ambient Sunday: Spices Peculiar – Caterina’s Taxi Ride #Ambient #Experimental

Welcome to Ambient Sunday. Today we have percussive strangeness from Spices Peculiar (Dante Villagomez) from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

The track is Caterina’s Taxi Ride. Taxi’s in London, especially black cabs, are notoriously the domain of Essex-based right wingers with firm opinions on Brexit and migrants. But by contrast Caterina’s Taxi Ride, “reflects the emotions of a simple taxi ride in Florence driven by a modern day saint; a call to move forward with change.”

Spices Peculiar is an improvisational looping project which uses guitar, synth and percussion. And there’s a bit of all of that here with some wheezy melodica. The percussion shuffles along at the heard of the track with bubbling electronics. That gives the track a liquid foundation against which odd found sound and gentle electronics sit alongside. Less a taxi ride and more a sense of being swept along a bit out of place. And yet somehow a warming reassuring track. Lovely awkwardness.

Taken from the So Called Brothers LP

~ by acidted on April 5, 2020.