Joan Arnau Pàmies is not the kind of artist who walks on the well-trodden paths of the tradition of our historical past, and this new single, "Pes," is an excellent example of this statement. "Pes" features the same atmosphere of experimentation he so eagerly pursues. As a musician with a career spanning fifteen years, Pàmies has never stopped blurring the lines between classical composition, electronic innovation, and avant-garde experimentation.
"Pes" feels deceptively simple, But underneath that exterior is an ocean of heaviness, or at least there would be an ocean where there is no ocean underneath it. Pàmies takes his cues from the grounding source of harmony, reflecting the structural clarity of Bach's wise Prelude in C Major and infusing it with his mordant sense of modernism and abstraction. It's a piece that breathes opening out, drawing in, in a way that is hard to categorize but emotionally potent.
"Pes" is the finely pictured balance of acoustic warmth and electronic fluidity that imparts the track a dynamic sense of motion, encouraging you to appraise its gravity according to your experience. A form of weight to its presence makes the movie feel weighty but never heavy-handed; it haunts you like the afterimage of a dream or the reverberation of an echoing chord long since dissipated. Pàmies holds to the notion that music is more than an auditory thing; it's a thing to feel, explore, and, most importantly, live.
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