Establishing a mood with guitar details and light percussion, before a more enigmatic frequency comes into play with looped drum textures, Empty Cans in Outer Space take us on an astral journey with their single, Zabble Dub.
The synths pan and demonstrate dimensionality before a bouncing soundscape with additional cosmic nuances take hold of our psyche. The enigmatic guitar re-appears before the melodic elements deliver a surround sound and astral experience with intricate sound design.
Two-thirds of the way through the composition, static synthesizer takes on the role of the primary protagonist, leading us to the final reprise of glistening crecendo-ing keys as the opus concludes.
The soundscape comes with an out-of-this-world handcrafted animation film as the result of the joint work of the band and graphic artist Ivan Drybas.
The enigmatic duo that is Empty Cans in Outer Space operates from Mannheim, Germany, and Minsk, Belarus. Both participants release their music separately as well; both play guitars, bass and keys; both program and produce. Both artists hide behind the string of numerous pseudonyms and side-projects, such as Garfungiloops, Emp_teleport, a.Kowalski, and Snow Collector.
Ivan Drybas, who created the video, is a Cyprus-based artist whose main background is in game development. Concept art, sketches, UX, and design, even voiceovers – his long history has it all. During last years, Ivan turns more and more attention to various forms and styles new to him, re-inventing and re-discovering himself as a creative unit. His love for inking in particular led to the creation of this hand-crafted animation. More than 2000 frames and elements were done and it took almost a year to accomplish the project.
We have added Zabble Dub to our New Music Spotlight playlist, whilst we watch the video on loop and listen to Empty Cans in Outer Space‘s album dedicated to the final frontier, Outer Worlds.