{"id":7212,"date":"2025-12-06T21:18:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T21:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/melodys-echo-chamber-ascends-heavenward\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T21:18:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T21:18:18","slug":"melodys-echo-chamber-ascends-heavenward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/melodys-echo-chamber-ascends-heavenward\/","title":{"rendered":"Melody\u2019s Echo Chamber Ascends Heavenward On \u2018Unclouded\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Melody Prochet (photo: Diane Sagnier).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For more than a decade, Melody Prochet\u2019s songs have drifted through dream logic \u2014 language dissolving into texture, emotion refracted through haze. Unclouded<\/em>, her fourth album as Melody\u2019s Echo Chamber and third for Domino Records, doesn\u2019t abandon that ethereal quality thanks to the arrival of the Swedish producer\/songwriter Sven Wunder, best known for the lush psych-jazz soundscapes of his own dazzling discography. But here, Wunder grounds her pastel palette with something newly tactile: breakbeats, supple bass lines and strings that move like muscle rather than mist.<\/p>\n

From the start, the rhythm section does as much storytelling as the lyrics. On opener \u201cThe House That Doesn\u2019t Exist,\u201d Love \u00d6rsan\u2019s bass and Heliocentrics legend Malcolm Catto\u2019s drumming lock into a groove that summons the home Prochet\u2019s singing about \u2014 one built from motion and heartbeat rather than stone. \u201cIn the Stars\u201d introduces Wunder\u2019s calling cards with gliding strings, boom-bap beats and a melody that pirouettes between melancholy and delight. Lyrics about \u201cfinding a place I can call mine\u201d land harder because the music itself sounds like a destination.<\/p>\n

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