Description
Title: Midnight Colours
Artist: Rafael Anton Irisarri
Label: Black Knoll Editions
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 880918264851
Genre: Electronic
Release Date: 2024-02-09
Number of Discs: 1
Vinyl LP pressing. Rafael Anton Irisarri is an American multi-instrumentalist composer, record producer, mastering engineer, and curator living in the state of New York. Irisarri embodies a new kind of composer: one who “”exists in an undifferentiated welter of pop, techno, and classical,”” according to Pitchfork. Midnight Colours comes after a starkly stunning run of releases on Ghostly, Morr, Room40, and Umor Rex, among others. The eight new songs were conceived as a sort of soundtrack to the “”Midnight Clock or Doomsday Clock”” – a symbol which represents the likelihood of a man-made global catastrophe. The result is perhaps Irisarri”s most moving and introspective work to date, unfurling a sort of epiphany symphony and sounding like a sunrise in slow motion. Irisarri experimented with the use of heavily “”degraded”” tape, played through a mis-aligned Otari 8-track tape machine that was constantly on the fritz. “”I felt using tape gave the music a particular texture & character, like when you watch old news reels from the 1950”s, you know those that talk about the H-bomb, and how we are all doomed,”” he explains.
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