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Evening

from the album 'ghost poems' available 4/15

Ghost Poems

earthen sea 'rough air'

V2.2

V2.2 (Suzanne Ciani remix)

Purchase: bit.ly/3OWXicn
Catalog #: GN64
June 10, 2022
LP+DIGI

Smoke Point is a duo composed of Brian Foote (Peak Oil, Leech, Kranky) and Sage Caswell (Spring Theory). With their self-titled debut LP on Geographic North, the Los Angeles-based duo takes a captivating cruise through heady ambient drifts and ruthlessly rhythmic loop dreams.

Foote and Caswell first teamed up to create a series of improvisational atmospherics throughout a multi-room art gallery. The pair conceived of a sprawling, dynamic experience with tones, rhythms, and textures that varied from room to room, yet were inextricably tuned and melded together. Visitors could serve as a sort of human crossfader, moving through the gallery and dialing up or down aural aspects as they pleased. And although the collaboration came together to create music for a specific physical space, the concept was never fully realized until what is now the duo’s first record. 

Smoke Point brings five extended, cruise-controlled exercises that calmly violate the Venn diagram's overlap between boundless dance music and unfathomable ambiance. But beyond the boundaries of an album as a set of songs, Foote and Caswell cracked things wide open and recontextualized the album as an actual DJ tool onto itself; ambient leaning and melodically focused. To achieve this, 'Smoke Point' offers a bounty of loops in the form of endless locked grooves on the vinyl edition and brief but equally utilitarian snippets on the digital edition of the LP.

Smoke Point

Smoke Point - "Awakening"

Spring

"The memories of past generations: the lives that burn within me, are the pillars of who I am. They constitute longings and traps, sin and strength, the temple that breaks down and rebuilds. The different dimensions of consciousness converge in the mind, which constantly tells us who we are, synthesizing and projecting our contradictions. The pain that comes with getting in touch with our vulnerabilities opens the doors to healing through confrontation. This lays the foundation for a more honest relationship with our past, present and future."

Colombian producer Aeondelit is fascinated by the connection between digital technologies and human beings. Captured through the use of ambient soundscapes, droning, cinematic soundscapes and experimental rhythms, he also crafts music that's influenced by the rocky landscapes of his hometown Manizales. His second LP Vestigios, which is released via Berlin art platform and label Unguarded, ruminates on themes of transformation, heritage, vulnerability and healing - as Aeondelit puts it, it's 'the bridge between the temporal and the eternal'.


The passage, written by Aeondelit, describes the meaning behind the album.

Spring

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