Scanner The Homeland of Electricity DiN72

Release date 17th June 2022
Limited to 500 copies Digipak CD

The second album for the DiN imprint by British Electronic Musician Scanner sees Rimbaud utilising a different toolset from his first album, An Ascent (DiN63), released in July 2020. Here he focuses in on several Elektron instruments such as the Analog Four, Analog Rhythm and Digitakt. Whilst his debut album was forged live in his studio during the start of the global pandemic here Rimbaud was after a lighter, more optimistic tone.

Rather prophetically Rimbaud states that this album was indebted to the work of the Ukranian film maker Laris Shepitko. Indeed the title of the sixth track “Artemovsk” references the birth place of Shepitko. Furthermore the title of the album, “The Homeland of Electricity”, is taken from her 1968 film which was commissioned by the government to celebrate the October Revolution’s 50th anniversary, but was rejected by the authorities for not being patriotic enough.

At times the music has a sense of blissful calm such as the opener “You and Me” with layers of texture slowly rising & falling to unveil hidden depths to the soundscape. Rimbaud’s love of the human voice as a musical element can be heard in the tracks “Another Aircraft”, “Artemovsk” and “At last it moves into silence” albeit with very different sonic outcomes. Fluctuating between darker elements displayed in such tracks as “Air in the Air” and “Beginning of an Unknown Century” in the end the album reveals a sense of hope which is no more apparent in the joyous simplicity of “Acentria”.

As Rimbaud puts it “this album feels like a sound polaroid of this exact moment in time, capturing our times in atmospheric sound works, where light will be found again, even in the midst of struggle”.


01 You and Me   05:58
02 Air in the Air   05:10
03 Another Aircraft   05:29
04 Grain, Letting Go   05:02
05 Beginning of an Unknown Century   05:33
06 Artemovsk   05:32
07 At last it moves into silence   03:47
08 Heaven Research Unlimited   04:08
09 Acentria   04:55
10 Traces upon Traces   04:19

Total Time :  50:11

The Homeland Of Electricity

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The Homeland Of Electricity by Scanner (DiN72) Demo Mix

(c) Chris Sharp 2021
(p) Chris Sharp 2021

Chroma

ihoi

Quatic

Raindrop Piano

Bones And Sky

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(Featured on Democracy Now!- 02/07/2020)

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-LYRICS-

The water comes down
They flush to a sea
Where they get into boats
And they manage to flee
And go with the flow
As we wait like some bait 
for a modern pa
to make a flaw with a law
and a new definition for “all” 
holding on
occipital to the thumbs
cover ears with the palms
favorite song sung in a hum
By the velvet mesquite 
Where the guards cannot see
someone sees the bright light of possibility
and when it moves
they yell “run”
Amá and apá sweat yet baby is cold
it shivers with the quivers of the 8 year old’s 
concrete hold
Come out of the sun 
Into the inside
a drop into the rising tide
The old, won’t hold
Noé was the one who was their ideal
Forced to dream, dream until he’s real
now his touch and codes now intertwining,
the pulse silently refining
on both sides of the wall
So we see how it can fall
Because our hands, well they move
with this electrical groove
And the dirt in our nails
becomes soil when it gets wet
from the tide

Mesquite

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