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Bajamar

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Danish youngster Jonas Munk Jensen definitely has talent beyond his years, the 22-year-old has already delivered a host of albums stretching back at least 5 years all of them within the ambient realm building on the influence of icons such as Aphex Twin, Boards Of Canada and To Rococo Rot, but with very much his own sound. Many of Jensens albums have revolved around reverberating guitar chords, stretched to produce elongated layers of drifting feedback mixed with heaving string pads. On Bajamar, however, Jensen revisits his album of 2003, The North Shore, which was slightly more focused on calming, ethereal synths apparently a favourite of Ulrich Schnauss! Bajamar only has 5 tracks, three of which surpass the 15-minute mark, and as with his previous works, his obsession with warm oceanic nights, golden sandy beaches and ambient textures are pretty much all consuming. The album is devoid of beats and exists only as a collection of, mostly, lengthy, nomadic ambient tracks, with warm, overlapping synths drifting inwards and outwards to mimic the tropical paradise residing in Jensens mind and to say its effective would be a understatement. Two tracks here, in particular, Celebration and September Swell are simply gorgeous, as beautifully melodic synth refrains roll back and forth. To be honest, this is not new territory for Jensen or the genre, but very few artists manage to communicate their emotions as evocatively as Jensen, so Im certainly not about to complain.