Portal Nou ‘In Passing’

Portal Nou’s music feels like individual paintings on the canvas. They are filled with fantastic visions, nuanced colors and masterful details. They bring you to another world with touch, feelings and nostalgia. You could see the way the brush once touched the canvas, where the different media dissolve or confront each other. It’s vulnerable and naked, but at the same time, euphoric and high aesthetic.

There’s a very intricate balance of melancholia and brightness in the warmth of In Passing. The full-length album completes an emotive, introspective journal that illuminates and inspires. Each track feels like it captures a specific moment in life. The vision is always combined with landscape and mood-filled contemplation. The energy here is both stormy and calm, in a way that it stimulates you to think while listening to the stories that the melodies hold.

The most beautiful aspect of In Passing is how it spreads to the space and gently changes your perception. It draws you in. It inspires and guides you in conversation with the music and with yourself. On a sonic level, it really expands your reality to the further beyond, but unlike a picture just depict what’s there, it gives you its heart and warmth. The music here is enriched with emotions and thoughts.

Portal Nou explores a guitar-centered landscape in In Passing. Through the nuanced, atmospheric texture, light strings and warm guitar timber, he fuses his music with a sense of melodic sensitivity that is captivating and highly relatable. The storytelling is vivid through his guitars. The ever-evolving drums feel like the earth that holds the life form. It’s grand and earthy, ever-changing but serves as the constant.