Into Fruition Volume 8 - Perspective

Ryan Lee West aka Rival Consoles has announced his fourth full length album 'Persona' will be released on 13th April via Erased Tapes.

The title 'Persona' was inspired by Ingmar Bergman’s film of the same name, specifically a shot in the opening credits of a child reaching out to touch a woman’s face on a screen, which is shifting between one face and another. This powerful image struck Ryan and it inspired the album’s main theme — an exploration of the persona, the difference between how we see ourselves and how others see us, the spaces in between; between states, people, light and dark, the inner persona and the outer persona. 

"My music is generally is generally inward looking. I like finding something about the self within music, that doesn't have to be specific but maybe asks something or reveals something. This record is a continuation on the self through electronic sounds. Like Legowelt once said ‘a synthesiser is like a translator for unknown emotions’, which I think sums up what I am trying to do. I think all these emotions we have make up our persona. So in a way by finding new ones you alter or expand your persona. And that is what I want my music to try to do. I deliberately aimed to be more sonically diverse with this record. I wanted to experiment more. I wanted to create new sounds and new emotions.”

Recorded at his studio in south-east London, ‘Persona’ benefits from Ryan’s exploration of a dynamic production process that combines analogue-heavy synthesisers, acoustic and electric instruments with a shoegaze-level obsession with effect pedals. A greater depth of emotion and confidence can be heard across the album. From the deconstructed movements on ‘Unfolding’ that starts the album with a snap of delayed snares, the apocalyptic drones of the title track and thundering drums in ‘Phantom Grip’ to more  restrained ambient feels of ‘Dreamer’s Wake’, ‘Rest’ and ‘Untravel’. The latter transverses six beatless minutes of undulating melodies representing “a limbo space, a feeling of ennui, of not really ever being known to others and others not ever really being known to you”.

'Be Kind' reveals a musical connection with fellow Erased Tapes artist Nils Frahm, with its minimal approach and improvisational nature. On the more complex sounding ‘I Think So’ Ryan aims to replicate a colour collage with sound. Like a musical kaleidoscope, a flashing and convoluted mass. Written after he saw Slowdive perform live last year, ‘Hidden’ builds from whispers to landscapes of controlled noise. In an interview with XLR8R magazine, Ryan explains: “once you start trying to make a sound loud, then you turn your back on thousands and thousands of sonic possibilities. One of the best things to do is to start a track with a really quiet, weak sound.” Taking this idea to its ultimate conclusion, ‘Fragment’ closes the album as an innocent sounding ambient piece, almost nursery rhyme like, yielding time for reflection on how the persona has changed.

'Persona' follows the success of a series of releases — the ‘Odyssey’ and ‘Sonne’ EPs, long player ‘Howl’, and 2016’s mini album ‘Night Melody’ — that saw Ryan mature into what Pitchfork has called a “forward-thinking electronic musician with his own ideas about sound”. Atypical of instrumental-electronic music, Ryan has achieved a signature sound that’s unmistakably identifiable as Rival Consoles. Going beyond typical electronic music production, Ryan defines it as “songwriting with an electronic palette of sounds”.

The increasingly dynamic live audio-visual show, born from bespoke performances at the Tate and for Boiler Room at the V&A Museum featuring self-programmed visuals in Max/MSP, has propelled him to play around the world. Ryan launches ‘Persona’ at London’s XOYO on 12th April with further dates to be announced.

Persona

Unfolding

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Rival Consoles - Unfolding

Second (double) single out through @FoFMusic
Album "Bloom" out on August 17th
Produced by Somni
Mixed and Mastered by Somni and @therealbigsoda
Listen on Spotify, Apple Music, etc: https://fofmusic.lnk.to/somni-girl

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DFS037 - North Americans - Going Steady
Out September 14th 2018 on Driftless Recordings
Preorder Vinyl now at driftlessrecordings.com

Written by Patrick McDermott
Acoustic Guitar - Patrick McDermott
Acoustic Guitar - Meg Duffy
Moog Model D Synth - Julianna Barwick 

Mixed by Joel Ford
Mastered by Mark Leombruni

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North Americans - Going Steady

From 'Our Latest Number' by toe - out August 22nd, 2018 via Topshelf Records
Purchase: http://smarturl.it/tsr_196
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toe - "Etude Of Solitude"

Available on digital & 12" on Bandcamp

"...atmospheric grooves and towering beats fused with hand-me-down tales of conquistadors, traditions and fables."
Sounds & Colours

"a cultural and ancestral journey through sounds and rhythms..."
DJ Mag Latin America

Lagartijeando has produced a very special EP with a choir from an indigenous tribe called Coro Qom Chelaalapi.  The choir formed as a means of passing down their culture to future generations in the absence of any formal records. They have been declared a living cultural heritage by UNESCO. Blending traditional songs with brooding beats and big grooves, The Revisión EP is a unique and special collaboration exploring the tribe’s rich musical heritage with contemporary production.

The original songs have a mythology and their bespoke instruments have deep significances. The nivike is a single string violin (representing the sounds made by a jaguar sharpening its claws on a tree trunk) and was used as a form of communication to contact loved ones or to find love amongst the mountain dwellers.

Antiguos Dueños De Las Flechas (Ancient Owner Of Arrows); the dark brooding bass and haunting vocals tell the sad story of the Spanish conquistadores destroying local tribes’ agriculture & way of life.

Remixes come from Intiche, Klik & Frik and Oxhala

Revisión

Coro Qom Chelaalapi Meets Lagartijeando - Anitguos Dueños De Las Flechas

Mixtape éditée entre Marseille, Castex & Saint-Dyé-sur-Loire, durant l’été 2018 
Morceaux finis, remixés, avortés, oubliés, enregistrements audios, sessions acoustiques, micros trottoirs, jam, improvisations, loopers enregistrés à Bruxelles, Marseille, Genève, Accons, Paris & Saint-Dyé-sur-Loire / Avec Reason, Live, Garageband & Figure / Entre 2015 et 2018 

Avec la participation de Robin Arthur Girod, Tony Marie, Maxim Hittinger, Louis Donnot, Pablo Cavero et Théophile Flécheux 

Dessin : Sarah-Louise Barbett - Graphisme : Bobb VV 

This is Lost Dogs Entertainment 015.

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From the 2011 album "Sentimental Favourites" – originally released on Dekorder. Available digitally on Bandcamp at the nice price of pay what you want.
https://andrewpekler.bandcamp.com/album/sentimental-favourites

Sentimental Favourites

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Into Fruition Volume 8 - Perspective

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