Jazz/Review New Laconia - New Laconia
Welcome to the New Laconia—a universe of sound where portals open, time bends, and stories breathe through music. Born in Ukraine, New Laconia is a progressive rock project that blends sci-fi narratives, emotional depth, and cinematic soundscapes into a seamless experience. Nothing here is accidental. Everything connects.
With New Laconia, the self-titled instrumental single, the project dives deeper into its ever-expanding sci-fi universe — an audiovisual world where sound becomes story, and narrative is carried not by lyrics but by texture, mood, and motion. This latest chapter is an otherworldly odyssey to Planet Symmetry, a place suspended outside the boundaries of Time, where a lone Traveler seeks what the cosmos has forgotten. The track translates that mythology into a rich, cinematic soundscape that feels both vast and intimate.
“New Laconia” marks the first appearance of saxophone in the project’s catalog, and the instrument becomes a defining presence: warm, searching, and almost sentient. It weaves through the mix like a guiding signal, balancing the track’s more experimental edges with emotional clarity. Around it, layers of jazz-influenced phrasing, atmospheric rock elements, and shimmering electronic pulses fuse into a sonic environment that suggests both the wonder of deep space and the quiet isolation of drifting through it.
The production is intentionally cinematic — swelling crescendos, hushed interstellar ambience, and rhythmic shifts that mimic a spacecraft altering course. Listening feels like gazing out of a starship viewport, watching unfamiliar constellations glide past.
More than a standalone release, New Laconia continues the project’s multi-dimensional storytelling tradition, where music, animation, and lore intertwine. Each track opens a new portal, and this one deepens the sense of a living universe unfolding piece by piece. Mysterious, adventurous, and beautifully crafted, New Laconia is a stellar step forward in the project’s ongoing cosmic journey.