Vasuki Sound is proud to present Michael Diamond’s Placid Wakefulness EP, an EP kindled by Michael’s work as a doctor and researcher. Across the four tracks we find the artist unpacking a range of sonic ideas based on this theme, from ambient calm to club-adjacent rhythms. The EP opens with hypnotic lullaby of ‘A Way of Listening’ complete with transcendent flutes provided by Alex Wilson, cello by George Lloyd-Own and a mellow groove. On the more energised ‘Reverse Entropy’, rhythmic ambiguity moves to rhythmic disambiguation as the track progresses, releasing tension and inviting an urge to dance as a jazz sax moment transmutes into jolting techno percussiveness. On ‘Turning and Turning’ the bpm shifts down a gear, a sonic dream where tough textural rhythms create a kind of liminal state tension. Closing out the EP we return to a sense of restfulness with the EP’s title track, where picked guitar loops marry vibrating pads and sunken pulses.