RIVAL CONSOLES PERSONA Il nuovo Album
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Rival Consoles
“PERSONA”
IL NUOVO ALBUM DEL PRODUTTORE INGLESE RYAN LEE WEST AKA
TRA I MIGLIORI ESEMPI DI IDM, DOPO IL SUCCESSO
DI “HOWL” (2015) CHE LO HA PORTATO IN TOUR IN
TUTTO IL GLOBO ED I SUCCESSIVI EP, E’ IN ARRIVO IL 13 APRILE
SU ETICHETTA ERASED TAPES
Attivo dal 2007, Rival Consoles, prima firma in assoluto dell’etichetta d’avanguardia Erased Tapes Records, si è guadagnato un posto di tutto rispetto nell’olimpo dell’IDM. I suoi lavori sono altamente emotivi e “Persona” è, a detta dello stesso artista, il suo album più espressivo, frutto di una produzione dinamica che combina sintetizzatori analogici a strumenti acustici, lasciando trasparire la sua passione per lo shoegaze e per gli effetti a pedale
RIVAL CONSOLES
album: PERSONA
release date: 13 APRILE 2018
label: Erased Tapes Records/Audioglobe
Tracklist:
1. Unfolding 2. Persona 3. Memory Arc 4. Phantom Grip 5. Be Kind 6. I Think So 7. Sun’s Abandon 8. Dreamer’s Wake 9. Untravel 10. Rest 11. Hidden 12. Fragment
previous press:
“Warmth and humanity” — Pitchfork
“Lovingly crafted and expressive compositions” — Resident Advisor
“Cinematic trancescapes” — Mixmag
“Deserves nothing less than total immersion” — Loud & Quiet
“This humanised take on techno provides both individuality as it does innovation” — Crack
“Heady and transcendent. It’ll drag you into a world rife with life” — The Line Of Best Fit
ad anticipare “Persona”, il brano “Unfolding”, prima traccia del disco:
“Persona” pre-order link: http://phonofile.link/rivalconsoles-persona
Rival Consoles - Untravel (Official Music Video)
Ryan Lee West aka Rival Consoles presents his expressive new album ‘Persona’, set for release on 13th April 2018 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 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’
Live Dates:
6th April - Sonar, Istanbul
12th April - XOYO, London
7-10th June - Gottwood Festival,
Wales More TBA.
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