Texas-based composer and sound designer Mike Vernusky has been collecting sounds and field recordings from all around the world for decades and, when inspiration strikes, he collages, composes, and re-composes those found sounds and intertwines them with his pen and whatever electronic devices he happens to be using. The results are often erring on the side of experimental-ambient, and sometimes contemporary classical even, but his latest release assumes a much darker, more ritualistic, meditative, zen-like, and somber aura, in part thanks to the combination of eerie choir voices that organically counterpoint the coldness of the analog synths he uses. Specifically, Vernusky used an array of rare vintage synthesizers (Buchla, EMS Synthi AKS, Macbeth, Moog, and the even more rare Suiko) as well as the processed voices of the Early Music Project of Texas choir and his own, plus some hard-to-identify auxiliary percussion by Vernusky's wife Carolyn Trowbridge.
Inspired and empowered by his visits to Japan (where he was awarded the Grand Prize in Music at the Digital Art Awards by Keio University), his latest release "Colorwave" comes out on the Japanese label NEUS-318 (whose owner/founder Ishigami Kazuya is credited as executive producer) and is available as a streaming/download and as a limited edition cassette, both of which you can buy directly from Bandcamp. The release is only comprised of two tracks but they span a total length of 25+ minutes and will take you through a thoroughly enjoyable dimly lit voyage into the darker side of Vernusky's production.