Mean Absolute Deviation is the work of Japanese musician Yasuhiro Koyari, who has released an EP earlier this year through the experimental electronic music label Rough Mesh Records, based in Romania. I know very little about Public Fabric, or Rough Mesh Records, so let’s move on to the music…
Axiology begins with slow drifting synth tones, quickly overtaken by irregular shuffling percussion. A groove is delivered by low grumbling tone where you’d expect a kick and a sound that fits the snare space. Textures are built and rhythms played with, our senses never quite grasping a definitive pulse, but taken on a rhythmic and spacial journey.
Three minutes later, and we’re on to Ontology, with an almost urban bassline accompanying a clockwork pulse, built up with glitchy rhythms and percussion. The bass intensifies until a breakdown that threatens to chill things out a little, then drops to a reverse rhythmic build, clockwork sounds return and we’re back on, albeit with a different melodic element. I ‘d call it a melody but it you would really hum along.
Phenomenology is the final tral, the longest at 3:24, and has a more tradition drum tone accompanying a vocal sample, and the occasional synth tone. Reverb and delayed drums make things feel a little more looped, but the mayhem we’ve become accustomed to through the previous couple of tracks still remains.
Mean Absolute Deviation is released through Rough Mesh Records and is available from Bandcamp.
