Walilamdzi made the cerebral accessible along with his newest reverb-driven rating, Nothing Lasts Eternally Anyway. Between the title and the timbre, he created a brand new philosophy, one that nearly waltzes with Machiavellian nonchalant opulence. But it isn’t the gilded-in-gold type of opulence, it’s the cultivated air of an existential soul watching the world slip by by a quasi-Lynchian dusky lens. How he managed to convey all of this by the resonance of heat, saturation-rich guitar strings and a gradual percussive pulse alone borders on modern-day alchemy. It’s sonic opium for the soul.
Behind Walilamdzi is Berlin-based artist Nikita Noebel, who shapes his instrumental work as if it had been a panorama, huge, cinematic, and atmospheric in its attain. Drawing inspiration from Daniel Lanois, Gustavo Santaolalla, and Neil Younger, he composes soundscapes that maintain mysticism, solitude, and impermanence at their core. His debut single Violent Tendencies opened the door to this sonic prism, and Nothing Lasts Eternally Anyway expands it additional, weaving intimacy with scale, reminiscence with dream, and philosophy with sound.
Walilamdzi’s music feels equally at house in movie, tv, or as a non-public headphone companion, proof of its cinematic magnetism.
Nothing Lasts Eternally Anyway is now accessible on all main streaming platforms by way of this hyperlink.
Assessment by Amelia Vandergast
