Drifts [LP]

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Arp - Drifts [LP] 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. Tracks 01. Touch (2:20)02. Echo's refrain (feat. Takuma Watanabe) (4:21)03. Dissolve (5:59)04. Future Nature (5:58)05. Orpheus & E (feat. Patrick Belaga) (3:56)06. Haze of (2:45)07. Shifted (3:42)08. Thread (1:53)09. After The Storm (3:17)10. Seaweed (4:55)11. Eye of Eurycide (1:50)12. Sketch For Zoe (3:04) Show more