0% Anxiety by Nuage
‘0% Anxiety’ is Nuage’s 4th album, capping off a decade-long career with an album filled to the brim with emotion. This album features an abnormally large number of features for the artist but the result is a body of work that packs an emotional punch on top of being perfect for setting off a dancefloor.
On the process of creating the LP, Kuzmin says:
“For me, music has always been healing – a feeling that removes anxiety, and points you in a positive direction. Perhaps that is why I really wanted to give this vibe to the listeners, to conduct a sound therapy. The last two years of recording the album were accompanied by tough things in my life (and the lives of many others), nevertheless I wanted to record the most danceable and inspiring album of my career – to put forth a mix of nostalgia, freedom and euphoria. This LP became a piece of work that I had never done before and I see it as a message to all freedom and peace loving people. I believe electronic music and the dancefloor are universal spaces, which inspires and creates love and peace. I close my eyes, my mind is under control, my anxiety levels go to zero.”
“The album progresses from intimate, chill records, to electro, and even dub techno with a touch of jazz. I used random arpeggios, reverb dub chords and glitchy synths to round the songs out. I collaborated with Canadian vocalist Fractures on the deep techno track ‘Redline’, Carbon Mass on an ambient dub sound, ‘Rain’, and Australian vocalist Gus on the deep electro ‘The Place We Know’. Labelmate and uber-talented ALSO ASTIR joins on the moody techno track ‘I Know it’s the Light’, pecq features on the nostalgic, indie-inspired ‘Night Air’, and Aestie provides vocals on the calm and airy ‘Passage’.”
Tracklist
| 1. | Full Moon | 6:30 |
| 2. | Ravel | 6:15 |
| 3. | The Place We Know feat. Güs | 4:58 |
| 4. | Newa | 5:48 |
| 5. | Passage feat. Aestie | 3:41 |
| 6. | Red Line feat. Fractures | 6:15 |
| 7. | I Know It's The Light feat. ALSO ASTIR | 5:49 |
| 8. | Rain feat. Carbon Mass | 6:40 |
| 9. | Night Air feat. pecq | 4:21 |
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The winters in Dmitry Kuzmin’s home city are to be endured rather than enjoyed. But like his musical counterparts across the Baltic in Scandinavia, it’s given Kuzmin (aka Nuage) the perfect excuse to just stay inside, nerd out and make music. There’s a warmth and cosiness to his productions – a mix of neo-classical ambience, sultry future 2-step and feather-light electronica.