'Photoelectric Effect' surfaced from Karachi sometime ago, with the release of an EP titled 'Cumulonimbus'. It's an ambitious effort, to say the least. Whereas a little more scrutiny on the mixing/mastering processes for a couple of the tunes could've greatly enhanced the overall sound of the offering, I'm not complaining. The minimalist/orchestral/piano based Post-Rock tunes composed by Asad Hussain and Ehsn Suri are indulgent, and border on the ethereal at times. Some of them revel in the musical possibilities brought on about using samples, which is always something to be appreciated. The tune that's featured here is also called 'Cumulonimbus', and has been described by the composers to be a 'journey through a storm cloud.' Subverting the duo's overt obsession with nubulous vapours, it comes across as a symbiosis between an organic creative process and a synthetic usage of instruments. The vacsillation between the calm/urgent dichotomy perhaps reflects the theme of the tune, which still manages to present itself as firmly situated under the auspices of 'Post-Rock' (Or, the variant of the genre touched upon by the likes of the brilliant Japanese instrumental trio Mouse on the Keys, at any rate).
