Mativetsky, Amiri & Page - Metamorphose [Fifth House Music]

Released via the Canadian Fifth House Music label on March 20th, 2k26 is "Metamorphose", a new collaborational album release which sees acclaimed tabla player x percussionist Shawn Mativetsky teaming up with Iranian-born singer and santur player Amir Amiri and harpist Sarah Page, also featured on electronics and vocal duties here, to create a five pieces and roughly 44 minutes spanning musical journey which fuses the individual experiences and heritage of the artists invlvd, all falling together in an ever floating, harmonious and somewhat even folksy stream of sound in the opening piece that is "Yavaran" with its cascading melodies, rolling rhythms and ethereal vocal passages hidden deep within the mix whereas the title track "Metamorphose", despite being a rather densely arranged affair, oozes a certain kind of mediterranean melancholia and even presents a rather dramatic breakdown leading to an even more inward looking and reflective, yet still playful second phase ending in a certainly New Age-adjacent manner. With the "Quarter Tone Suite" the triumvirate of artists brings forth an even deeper path of stripped down, shimmering melancholia seemingly infused with a rather Eurasian twist and a tentative exploration of themes over more than 11 minutes followed by the captivating tribal'esque grovves and shimmering melodies of "Maktrismos" before "Pathos" rounds things off with ethereal, timeless and mythical movements hovering somewhere in a universal darkness unphased by time, space or quantum physics, an insular sonic space of peacefulness emitting a steady, all embracing, dim and comforting glow for those in need of exactly this. World Music x World Fusion beyond its usually narrow niche and an album we'd stylistically also would've expected to be played in ChillOut x Ambient areas of mid 90s Goa / PsyTrance parties due to its rather mystical and spriritual nature if it had been released in those days.

Album artwork on Instagram!