Fort Romeau - Beings Of Light (1 LP) 2022

Исполнитель: Fort Romeau

Альбом: Beings Of Light

Лейбл: GHOSTLY INTERNATIONAL / CARGO

Вид носителя: (1 LP)

Дата Релиза: 11.02.2022

Состояние: Новая (запечатанная)

Штрих код: 804297838731

Примечание: - Followup to 2015's Insides.- RIYL: Jacques Greene, Leon Vynehall, DJ Seinfeld, Project Pablo- Features cover art by Salvador Dal? prot?g? Steven Arnold.- Silver halide (gray + black marble) vinyl limited to 1,500 copies worldwide - Vinyl is housed in a black dust sleeve inserted in to a mattevarnish jacket with metallic silver spot color //After a run of critically-acclaimed singles and EPs, British producer Michael Greene, aka Fort Romeau, returns to the full-length format with Beings of Light, the long-awaited follow-up to 2015's Insides and his second LP on Ghostly International. While a prolific DJ who orients many of his productions for the dancefloor, Greene still sees the album as the ultimate statement of intent, "a space to stretch out, to speak in full paragraphs rather than stunted sentences." He has explored several stylistic fragments in recent years (including the summer 2018 anthem "Pablo," hailed a Best New Track by Pitchfork), but when faced with the extended pause to the dancecommunity in 2020, Greene felt compelled to focus on a larger body of work. Embracing a back-to-basics mentality, he amassed over a dozen hours of sounds, asking himself throughout the sessions: "Does the music move you? Is it honest?" He cameout the other end with Beings of Light, an expressive collection traversing rainy day ambient, moonlit disco, and dream-like techno in pursuit of the power found withinour subconscious.Album opener "Untitled IV" ushers in a sprinting tempo in its exploration of the human voice, a recurring device in the Fort Romeau project. Greene uses it as a compositional layer, disembodied with its context often opaque or reduced to a single phrase. Here the voice is scattered in percussivetwitches, colliding with a kick drum to induce a near state of hypnosis as horns sound off in the distance. Propulsive standout "Spotlights'' is Greene's ode to the romanticised New York City that lives in our hearts, nocturnal and carefree. A vocal snippet repeats the title wit...