Brian D’Souza, better known as Auntie Flo, launches “Season 2” of Ran$om Note’s collectable cassette series, Music To Watch Seeds Grow By, with a set focused on Sunflowers. 

While the release can be broken down into 7 separate tracks, these seamlessly segue into one another. Quiet, delicate deep listening, the music’s electro-acoustic improvisations washing in warm waves and ripples. A temple like calm of wind chimes and woodblocks marking the point of entry. This relaxed ritual rattling then slipping into a lattice woven from drones. Whispering and purring vibrations that crisscross like sprouting roots and shoots. 

Heliotropism is a tangle of metallic tongues, and Stand Tall is kinda kosmische, but really this a suite, a long-form thing, that you should – for the best results – simply surrender to. The abstract ambience all makes sense as the music reaches its more intense sections, such as Sunshine, Freedom and A Little Flower. Here the assorted elements, combine, come together. The children’s music box melodies. The synths’ soothing, lullaby sighs. The showers of shaken, seashell percussion. 

Intended to describe the way that the plants themselves communicate, the whole album has the air of eavesdropping on alien transmissions. The tracks’ intertwining, fluid and flowing. It’s vibe alive. The music’s gradual metamorphosis measured in micro-movements. Sending out sequences, like vegetative, organic feelers as it grows and evolves.

Brian D’Souza’s Sunflowers can be ordered directly from Ran$om Note off-shoot Music To Watch Seeds Grow By.