Inspired equally by modular synthesis, his Thai heritage, Benoit Mandelbrot’s mathematical work on fractals as well as the surrealist spirals of Junji Ito’s manga masterpiece Uzumaki, Round a Roo is a follow-up to santipreecha’s 2019 debut album In a Forest Dark. The album plays out as a journey that weaves these varying influences and cultures through the simulations we live in today into a mosaic that is based in a more fundamentally live approach to electronics than the previous work. Although undeniably still a studio album, the pieces juxtapose a large number of live modular synthesis performances against the rigidity of pre-determined structure and lines to create an ever-flowing, ever-spiraling cascade of sound whose ever-descending patterns, like Mandelbrot’s fractals, duplicate and replicate themselves the further you sink in. This is perhaps most exemplified in the 13-minute piece Rose-Tinted Spiral that oscillates between the pounding asymmetrical rhythms of one version of reality and the soaring dreamlike fog of another as we descend ever more through our illusions into a perception of ordered bliss.