Jon Tye – one half of successful, super chilled duo Seahawks – assumes his ambient / deep listening alias Ocean Moon to deliver something slightly different to Pinchy & Friends. The label has previously, largely, aimed at the dance floor with collisions of techno, house and dub. Scoring its biggest hits with Alex Kassian’s uplifting, trance-y tinkerings. 

Tye’s new 12 for the imprint, however, is painted from his ultra laidback pseudonym’s meditative musical palette. Its soft, shifting textures drawing from treated field recordings and frayed, glitched frequencies. The combination filling the EP with the aural equivalent of a cooling breeze. A hushed, whispered rush where a distant ecosystem sings, chatters and dissolves into an expanse of abstract, atmospheric space. 

In a concession to Pinchy’s need to move its feet, Tye, though, does bring the odd beat. Hidden Treasures, a computerised caress, with a bonus, gentle woodwind-like whistle, contains traces of Buddhist temple percussion. Reflecting Light’s far away vocals and vibraphone touches / trickles  shuffle to a slow, tribal thud. The title track, Shimmering States, a 16-minute, episodic epic boasts a big, expertly deconstructed break. Broken and rubbery. Flashes of phased cymbal crashes fleshing out its cleverly contorted funk. 

Ocean Moon’s Shimmering States is out now on Pinchy & Friends.