The Organic Ambient Jazz of Voyager II’s “Shape of Light” Conveys a Deep Sense of Pastoral Tranquility

VoyagerII_ShapeOfLight1_crop — Voyager II “Shape of Light” cover

“Shape of Light” by UK duo Voyager II develops in what seems like an organic fashion with soft percussion and impressionistic breezes of tone and melodic, wordless vocals that seem to flutter about in an invisible breeze. Electronic bass pulses in sync with the all but non-linear dynamics and like witnessing a natural phenomenon like the local weather or footage from deep space there is an elegance and easiness to the composition that may not follow conventional rules of music but is accessible by a kind of logic that transcends that which we impose on our environment everyday that can cause us to miss details. Thus it’s the kind of song that if you take in its ambient textures and fluid atmospheres as a whole rather than dissecting it for its component the listening experience is parallel to the ineffable sense of tranquility one gets from a bucolic landscape or a field of stars that the satellite Voyager 2 may be transmitting back to Earth. Listen to “Shape of Light” on Soundcloud and connect with Voyager II at the links provided.