arp-drifts lp

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A collection of transfixing, storm-like compositions, Drifts draws you into its heightened sense of quiet, reveling in iridescent, tranquilized vapors -- one part ambient classical , one part club-adjacent ambience. Pitched, reduced, sampled and re-sampled, the album's glowing, elliptical abstractions -- using piano, harp, strings and modular synthesizer -- explore the emotional terrain between aftermath and renewal, blending the unstructured immediacy of improvisation with the elegant sculpture of composition. Drifts represents for its maker a newfound interest in shadow and mystery, each track a shifting terrain, a collection of clues, a scene set in a larger story, the effect cumulative. Featuring collaborations with Patrick Belaga, Marilu Donovan (LEYA), and Takuma Watanabe, the album's cinematic suite of impressionistic, ambient works invites the listener into a vast, mapless space of dreamlike non-linearity where interior and exterior landscapes bristle with intimacy and electricity. Show more