In a perfect world, every time you pressed a button on a vending machine or hit a key on your laptop, it would sound like Gelbart's music: an electro-pop hybrid of tinkly mellow lounge and sophisticated electronica. Think Czech communist robots aspiring to Erik Satie's minimalistic complexity but ending up with children's TV theme tunes played through a Gameboy.Despite his background being jazz and modern classical composition, Gelbart has a pop sensibility that is rare in today's plethora of electronic sub-generes. He uses standard instruments alongside plastic toy keyboards and saxes, old synths and cheap guitar effect boxes – even the odd musical key chain. His debut album on FACT Records, My Favorite Vacation, is playfully intricate and melodiously dense, pop music made with avant-garde thinking (or, perhaps, the other way round.)
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