While the rest of us do our summer thing consisting of mowing lawns, grilling, the occasional summer vacation, and generally trying not to melt throughout it all from the summer heat, Keith Canisius is hard at work making new music as Morph Stereo.
To catch you up, Morph Stereo is the latest music project of Denmark-based electronic composer Keith Canisius. He’s recorded music in Rumskib, Astral TV, Shortwave Broadcaster, and now currently as Morph Stereo. He makes buoyant electronic music which is based in the Eurorack and electric guitar, and that music is all-encompassing. Touching on ambient, Berlin School, shoegaze, and heady sci-fi sounds, Canisius has built a discography worth deep-diving into. It’s music that pulls you from the day to day and drops you in an ethereal sound world; sonic cloudbursts and circuital psychedelia come together to create a beautiful aural experience.
First up is “Cambridge”, which came out in June. There’s a feeling of free-floating through some cosmic realm. A positivity emanates throughout the song’s runtime like watching a sunrise in space. There’s touches of Cluster and Harmonia via a melodic synth sequence and what sounds like a living, breathing wheeze of circuital noise throughout.
Next is “Flow Child” which was released just this week. A drum machine gives the song a mechanical heartbeat as synth tones sound like distant trumpets. “Flow Child” has a very 80s quality to it, bringing to mind Wang Chung’s To Live And Die In L.A. soundtrack, as well as the work of American composer Mark Isham. I’m also reminded of the great work of Hunter Complex, in-particular the album Open Sea.
Morph Stereo’s sound evolves with each release. There’s incremental shifts from the abstract and amorphous sound collages to something that feels more intentional. A story is being told in this electronic explorations, and I’m here to listen to these stories.
Check out more of Morph Stereo here.
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