“Tidal Reflections” - FICMARO
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With Tidal Reflections, Toronto-born, Barcelona-based producer FICMARO doesn’t just release a debut LP — he curates an experience. Across thirteen tracks (and a beautifully cut 12-inch vinyl edition), the artist constructs a sonic landscape that drifts effortlessly between organic tech-house grooves, ambient euphoria, and cinematic dreamscapes. It’s music that feels like watching sunlight ripple across water — always shifting, never still.
FICMARO has built Tidal Reflections as an album in the truest sense — each track slides into the next, tracing a seamless emotional arc from dawn calm to night pulse. Side A and Side B move like chapters in a quiet odyssey: meditative one moment, propulsive the next.
From the gentle shimmer of “Shampoo Starlett” to the glowing pulse of “Dreamscape” and the tidal sway of “Islands,” the record flows with an internal rhythm that feels both precise and organic. You don’t listen to this record so much as enter it.
“Changement de Cap” drifts in like a deep-sea current — muted percussion, distant vocals, and synth pads that seem to breathe. “Euphoria” adds a more tactile beat, shimmering with subtle house textures, while “Tsunami Kisser” penultimately closes the record with widescreen emotional release — equal parts melancholy and momentum.
It’s an album that demands time and rewards surrender.
FICMARO’s production philosophy is rooted in contrast — ambient calm threaded through rhythmic motion. The album’s textures feel alive — a marriage of analog warmth and digital sheen, of synth pads that feel oceanic and percussion that lands like soft rain.
You can hear traces of Bonobo, Tycho, and Floating Points, but FICMARO’s palette is more elusive — he paints with atmosphere, layering sound so delicately that even silence seems intentional.
Recorded between Toronto and Barcelona, two cities defined by their different kinds of rhythm, Tidal Reflections captures the push and pull between movement and stillness, between metropolis and sea. “Peace is where you choose it to be,” FICMARO reflects — and that’s exactly what this record embodies: not escapism, but alignment.
Mastered by Mike Hiller (Bonobo, Sam Smith, Disclosure) at Metropolis Studios, Tidal Reflections gleams with sonic precision without losing its emotional depth. The mastering gives each frequency its space to breathe — basslines hum like distant engines; high-end textures shimmer without ever cutting through the calm.
The artwork by Popquiz Gods mirrors the music perfectly — abstract yet evocative, all fluid color and quiet emotion.
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Throughout his earlier releases (Return to Salt, Oh Mia, Alexandrite Fearless, Euphoria), FICMARO has always toyed with dualities — retro synth moods and forward-thinking production, melancholic undercurrents and kinetic drive. On Tidal Reflections, he perfects that balance.
The record doesn’t belong to any single genre: it’s not quite ambient, not fully house, not strictly cinematic — it’s something liminal, a sonic tide that moves between categories as freely as it moves between emotions.
What makes Tidal Reflections special is its restraint. FICMARO never chases a drop or forces a climax; instead, he lets rhythm and texture evolve naturally, like ripples expanding outward. It’s sophisticated music for listeners who crave both introspection and motion — a rare combination of meditative design and emotional pulse.
In a world addicted to algorithmic chaos, Tidal Reflections is an antidote — a record that slows your breathing and reawakens your focus.
FICMARO’s debut is a masterclass in subtlety — ambient electronica that moves like the ocean, shifting between memory and momentum, calm and catharsis.
“Tidal Reflections” is available now on all major streaming platforms
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