- HOM001, short for House Of Mora, is a white label record with little to identify where it comes from. Aside from a stamp bearing the name of the label and the track titles, only an email address and a "percussions" credit to Inor Sotolongo, a French-based Cuban musician, is supplied. ("I don't think more info is really important for the record to be enjoyed and played out," the label wrote back when I got in touch.)
HOM001, then, is the work of one or more people who would prefer to stay out of the discussion about the music, but some of its inspirations are less of a mystery. "Feldspar" has the dramatic synth tones of a Levon Vincent track, but the percussion, though complex, is comparatively light—the song's delicate array of clicks and bleeps collide gently like wind chimes in a doorway. The sounds on "Hand Sequence," a synth jam laden with tambourines and castanets, are similarly airy. The rhythm is skeletal but there never feels much need to flesh it out. Sotolongo's busy hand percussion on "Two Days With Inor" introduces warmth to HOM001, but its chilly synths and smeared ambient sounds soon mark a retreat into the shade.
TracklistA1 Feldspar
B1 Hand Sequence
B2 Two Days With Inor