#mioclono

Mioclono started at the end of 2016 when Oriol Riverola and Arnau Obiols did their first recording session at Angel Sound Studios in Barcelona, assisted by engineer Miquel Mestres. This became a tradition and they kept doing these recording sessions every end of the year. The present album is the result of the first recording session in 2016 and during the following months, the duo met up several times and over-dubbed those early recordings. Later it was mixed and mastered later on by Gordon Pohl in Düsseldorf, Germany. The project is named Mioclono because both Arnau and Oriol had been diagnosed with epilsepsy, a neurological disorder that affects the electrical activity in the brain. Given this coincidence, their moniker takes the name in Spanish of myoclonus. Ilustration of the front and back covers by Helga Juárez Inner sleeves and labels design by Guillermo Lucenas

Honestly I do not and likely never will understand MG's newfound fascination with minimal techno tracks, but I suppose that's probably because I am bad at having perfect stoner Friday nights, so. I appreciate that "Blue Skies" attempts to go somewhere with its minimalism, the drone building force so gradually you almost miss it until it's taken an equal weight to the looped synths and percussion. I suppose it's as good a representation as any of the unevenly-distributed impact of climate change: while it's already hit some regions hard, there are others (like Chicago, where MG and I are) mainly experiencing climate change as slightly milder winters, slightly more freakishly warm days in the fall. The skies can seem blue for a moment, but the drone is a reminder that there's a storm coming for us all soon enough.

Mioclono Cluster I 2023