Teleportations [CD]

Danalogue - Teleportations [CD]

Following an illustrious tenure as founding member of acclaimed, boundary-defying trio The Comet Is Coming, alongside output as half of electronic psych jazzers Soccer96, the producer and synthesist Dan Leavers, aka Danalogue, announces his debut solo LP, Teleportations. Conceived as a continuous, journey-based piece, Teleportations is a warm, playful and immersive album that transforms endings, grief and personal upheaval into a vivid science-fictional voyage of escape, healing and renewal. A self-contained sonic world performed entirely by Danalogue, Teleportations unfolds like a single trip rather than a collection of standalone tracks. Moving seamlessly between celestial ambience, shimmering kosmische, euphoric space disco, liquid jazz funk and the deepest Detroit house, the album invites listeners to enroll in what Dan describes as a "teleportation program" -- a musical technology designed to sublimate difficult emotions, allowing sound, texture and motion to carry the listener through shifting states of feeling and emerge transformed on the other side. Science fiction provides both the language and architecture of the record. Inspired by astral travel, theta brainwaves, collective consciousness, the artist Jean Giraud, the writer Ernst Bloch and the film maker Miyazaki, Danalogue imagines music as a shared act of transportation -- not unlike the experience of an audience tuning into a gig as one unified organism. Danalogue cites figures such as Joe Meek, Wendy Carlos, Isao Tomita, Laurie Spiegel, Mort Garson and Terry Riley, and groups Harmonia and Kluster, as influences -- all artists who operated outside rigid genre boundaries. Teleportations was created using a largely vintage analogue setup, centered around the Roland Juno-60 and SH09, Jupiter 4, Oberheim and old samplers. 01. Awakening On The Planet 02. Mother of Mars 03. Far Beyond The Sun 04. Moebius Triptych 05. You Are On The Right Track 06. Theta Wave Convergence 07. Arrival At Rho Ophiochi 08. Out Of Phase 09. Onto The Next Dimension 10. Earth Remembrance Day