Blood Pony

Racine - Amitiés
Cat. Nr: DN022
Format: CD / DL
Release Date: January 21, 2022
Buy / stream: dansenoire.ffm.to/Racine

There’s a lived-in quality to the sound of Racine’s Amitiés. Named after the French word for friendship, the Montréal-based Quebecois artist follows an extended time spent indoors to contemplate what it means to be isolated and in one’s own body, while also staying connected. The album is a follow-up of sorts to Quelque chose tombe (“Something Falls”), released in February 2020 and a kind of accidental prophecy for the crisis that was to come.
Amitiés disintegrates before your very eyes. Opening with a roughshod iPhone recording of Racine playing his parent’s harmonium, the creaky acoustics of "Mon amour je ne guéris jamais" slowly degrade into digital simulations of dreadful organic beauty. That track and the rest of the LP gives the feeling of an abandoned building; a sense of frayed, earthiness dusted with the wisdom of time. And yet, it’s almost entirely made from simulations. Clipped Native Instruments violin patches punctuate the churning atmospherics of “Arête coincée dans une amygdale”. The lonely gongs and bells of “Grosso” resonate in a gust of synthesised ambient. Vocal plugins and the very occasional YouTube samples of a recorded voice are sped-up, glitched, pitched and scrambled into indecipherability. These vocal apparitions rise and fall into the sonic ether like individual ghosts of human contact. They’re bold and expressive, deeply melancholy and yet full of the potential for joy and an awareness of life’s beauty.

It’s in this dearth of social interaction—the heady psychosis of too much solitude—that Amitiés’s tone and mood lies. A score for the numb dissociation from internal chaos and alienation, the album’s sense of acute distress is assuaged only by the small network of collaborators and influences it draws from. Long-time friend and peer Justin Leduc-Frenette (aka Keru Not Ever) contributes drum programming to “Mon amour je ne guéris jamais”. A last-minute reworking of the untitled “Sans titre” by German duo Arigto matches the weight and timbre of Racine’s sooty post-classical soundscapes.

Ultimately, Amitiés is a very human response to an inhuman environment. It’s an intimate homage to friends and the mysterious effects of distance, while somehow finding healing in hardship.

Mastered by Rashad Becker, artwork by Niels Wehrspann

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Amitiés

Racine - Arête coincée dans une amygdale

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https://open.spotify.com/album/3mPWNIB5tArf46LZhdonOh?si=f0Kk7zZ_Qf2vzeMje9SQIw

an ep about giving in

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oxhy - and the just

Im reading every corner of the room like its a page im turning
I got what you need but I would never keep it on my person
Please dont ask me where I got it i am just a humble merchant
Id like to tell you what you wanna hear but I cant say for certain

Pull back off linoleum and now its breakin my immersion
in my bed off a bean sacred ceiling’s dance is my diversion
bright red facade, dont let them see whats underneath the curtain
im just rackin up the capital, its a baby fortune
i dont really gotta think about it, i just make the purchase
back country roads late night, and im speedin swervin
somethin in her eyes just wasnt there i think it made her perfect
yeaaaa i think it made her perfect

diversion prod. deer park

there is bliss all around for those with ears to listen . thank you to Koma-oto for the trust to play at the institution of dreams

kom(2)gether - The White Hotel 28/03/24

Composed and recorded on Elektron Digitone
Additional instruments, vocals, and sound design in Ableton

This Is For You - DJ Hell / Chicks On Speed (Maestra Version)
Elektron Jam 1
When You Hear The Bassline - Major Lazer (Maestra Version)
Elektron Jam 2
Don't Let Go - Maestra
Shadow - Chromatics (Maestra Version)

Concerto 1.0

super/positions m i x

for Sébastien Forrester Rinse France residency Afraa

recorded with an XDJ XZ

Kindohm - TRACE malone
Fis & Rob Thorne - Glum Herrin
aulic veil - SOLETAKEN
Pierce Warnecke - A Quickie in the Bouncy House
Kirk Barley - Gate
Özcan Saraç - Messier 84
Slikback - SUCCESSION
Gábor Lázár - ILS.6
Trisicloplox - Brood
emptyset - ash
Ship Sket - Frost Cake
Shapednoise - Swash
Slackk - Skeleton Crew
GRANDMIXXER - Ether Bass 2

super/positions

Tracklist:
Amnesia Scanner - AS Disco
Keygurr - Suéltalo
KAVARI - Mirroring (Like Me)
Dreamcrusher - Cathedral of Moths
Kamixlo - Golden Trigger
Zaliva-D - Sky Singing
Anonymous Club - Frosty (feat. LEECH)
TSVI - Crown (feat. WWWINGS)
Arca - Harness
Slikback - Ascension
Shygirl - Cleo
Sd Laika - Remote Heaven
Jensen Interceptor - Collect Those Ends
Rabit - Pandemic
Lake Haze - #1 (feat. IVVVO)
Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet - Disperse

S11.24.24

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