Artist : Jon Porras
Album : Light Divide
Year : 2014
Genre : Ambient
Quality : 220kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint Stereo
Source : CD
Playtime : 0h 31m
Size : 51.87mb
Label : Thrill Jockey
Catalognr : thrill 363
Tracklist:
01. Apeiron 6:54
02. Recollection 7:32
03. Divide 6:26
04. New Monument 5:20
05. Pleiades 5:01
Releasenotes:
Jon Porras creates drone music with a refined sense of atmosphere and remarkable
forward motion. Regardless of the tools he uses, be it guitars and stacks of
amplifiers or modular synthesizers, Porras creates cavernous sound-worlds that
are as inviting as they are alien. Light Divide, his second solo release for
Thrill Jockey, shows Porras shifting his focus entirely to electronic synthesis,
using a wide array of analog and digital systems to exponentially expand his
sonic palate. The resulting sounds are silhouettes of distant rhythms,
abstracted traces of techno wastelands that come in and out of focus like an
urban, post-industrial sprawl being overtaken by fog.
Porras constructed and arranged the tracks on Light Divide as an architect would
design a building, thinking of the sub-bass as a foundation, percussion as walls
and support beams, and white noise and oblique melodies as the light filling the
open spaces. Rather than writing passages or song structures, he focused on
designing sounds from the ground up, building gestural movements with these
sculpted slabs. Through this technique, patterns and musical phrases emerge in
subtle and surprising ways. This theme of architecture and design is reflected
in the album cover, which was taken at Maison La Roche, a villa designed and
built by Le Corbusier.
Light Divide reveals Porras as a restless explorer, constantly finding new means
by which to create expansive, impressionistic music. It demands close listening,
and stands apart in Porras' solo and Barn Owl discography for its intense
attention to detail.
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