""I just make stuff until it sounds right," said Norwegian experimental musician Gaute Granli in a 2021 interview, when asked about his creative intentions. His answer is both evasive-what would it mean, when crafting deliberately confrontational art, to release something you think sounds wrong?-and an accurate description of a practice shaped by enigmatic instincts. Granli's curious new album Rosacea has a nebulous atmosphere all its own."
"Granli's favorite tool is the loop, which lets him incorporate any flash of texture-a one-off sampled kick drum, or a foggy patch of effects-laden slowcore guitar-into his ramshackle dream logic, creating pieces that dodge convention, yet follow a sustained, self-imposed structure. As his songs gradually populate their frigid space with instrumental lines, surreal contrasts emerge, as on "Wampir," with its shaggy, searching bass offset by sickly-sweet wind whistles."
Gaute Granli's Rosacea constructs a nebulous, confrontational sound world using loops, bloodshot synths, and delirious vocal performances. Granli employs looping to repurpose disparate textures — sampled kick drums, effects-laden slowcore guitar — into ramshackle dream logic that maintains a self-imposed structure. Instrumental lines gradually populate frigid spaces, producing surreal contrasts such as the shaggy bass and sickly-sweet wind whistles on "Wampir." Granli extensively manipulates the voice, layering processed fragments and guttural loops that obscure traditional lead vocals, as on "Tatting Shuttle." Sparse, impressionistic lyrics and quavering performances function as Rorschach tests, eliciting associative imagery. Rosacea references Ghédalia Tarz.
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