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FLEETING FUTURETONAL UNIONFormat: LP (COLOURED) Cata No: TU001LE Barcode: 5060446128596 |
Akusmi is the new project moniker of French-born, London based composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer Pascal Bideau, who signs to the new Tonal Union imprint for the release of his album ‘Fleeting Future.’ With its hallucinatory, genre-defying blend of minimalism, cosmic jazz and Fourth World influences, and in its quest for optimism in the face of unknown and limitless possibility. ‘Fleeting Future’ stands apart as an inventive and inspirational debut. The creation of the album’s richly colourful and multi-layered sound world was originally inspired by Bideau’s journey to Indonesia, where he immersed himself in traditional Gamelan and gong music. Many of the themes, motifs and melodies on ‘Fleeting Future’ seed from the ‘Slendro’ scale, one of the essential tuning systems used in Gamelan. However it is not musical scales, but scales as in the size or extent of things that most fascinates Bideau, specifically he explains; “the compelling way things dramatically change when you shift from any given scale to another.” The album connects directly to nature and the wider world in its evocation of perceptive shifts and transitions from microscopic to macro scale, as evidenced by the opening title track ‘Fleeting Future’, on which a simple dotted saxophone line morphs and billows into synths, brass and strings, indicating the musical voyage that lies ahead. Like the start of a journey or adventure it is full of anticipation, its arborescent growth conveying the optimism of the unknown and of limitless possibility. The album centrepiece ‘Neo Tokyo’ is a vibrating, ebullient mass of colliding elements which feels like zooming in to the electron level, as it teeters on the edge of chaos. The title is a reference to Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira, a dizzying work of art set in a sprawling futuristic metropolis. |
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Tracks:A1. Fleeting FutureA2. Sarinbuana A3. Divine Moments of Truth A4. Neo Tokyo B1. Longing for Tomorrow B2. Cogito B3. Concrescence B4. Yurikamome |
Press:Vinyl Factory |
Audio & Video:N/A |
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| AKUSMI FLEETING FUTURE TONAL UNION | |
| FRANKIE ROSE SEVENTEEN SECONDS NIGHT SCHOOL | |
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| K.LEIMER THE STARTING ERRORS PALACE OF LIGHTS | |
| MOLLY NILSSON IMAGINATIONS NIGHT SCHOOL | |
| NILS FRAHM SPACES ERASED TAPES | |
| OTHA TURNER AND THE RISING STAR FIFE AND DRUM BAND EVERYBODY HOLLERIN' GOAT BIRDMAN | |
| RICHARD NORRIS MUSIC FOR HEALING: THE LONGFORM SERIES 5-8 GROUP MIND | |
| THEE OH SEES HELP IN THE RED | |
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