Yuval Ron

Somewhere in This Universe, Somebody Hits a Drum

Earlier than you even hearken to it, it’s clear that Yuval Ron’s Somewhere in This Universe, Somebody Hits a Drum is a very severe document. Stoic, in full astronaut gear, Ron floats in house on the album’s paintings, a definitive picture for the odd psychological cinema the document scaffolds—with the essential position of drummer performed by Marco Minnemann. It’s there on the ultimate frontier, geared up with astral, analog synthesizers, arresting time signatures, and a beneficiant serving to of self-satire, that Ron presents his open jazz/metallic echo of traditional prog dipped in an absurd crystalline fondue.

All of it begins with a march and a regal Gregorian yodel heralding the house voyage, and unfolds by Ron’s peaceful-stream-meets-metal-arpeggios guitar, and the occasional tubular bell and aural suggestion of house monsters (by growling, distorted results). Matt Paull on keys and Roberto Badoglio on bass full the quartet, collectively cultivating a fertile prog playground … in house.

Should-hear tracks: “Wi-Fi in Emerald Metropolis,” “I Consider in Astronauts”