Drifts [LP]

Arp - Drifts [LP]

A collection of transfixing, storm-like compositions, Drifts draws you into its heightened sense of quiet, reveling in iridescent, tranquilized vapors -- one part ambient classical, one part club-adjacent ambience. Pitched, reduced, sampled and re-sampled, the album's glowing, elliptical abstractions -- using piano, harp, strings and modular synthesizer -- explore the emotional terrain between aftermath and renewal, blending the unstructured immediacy of improvisation with the elegant sculpture of composition. Drifts represents for its maker a newfound interest in shadow and mystery, each track a shifting terrain, a collection of clues, a scene set in a larger story, the effect cumulative. Featuring collaborations with Patrick Belaga, Marilu Donovan (LEYA), and Takuma Watanabe, the album's cinematic suite of impressionistic, ambient works invites the listener into a vast, mapless space of dreamlike non-linearity where interior and exterior landscapes bristle with intimacy and electricity.

Tracks

01. Touch (2:20)
02. Echo's refrain (feat. Takuma Watanabe) (4:21)
03. Dissolve (5:59)
04. Future Nature (5:58)
05. Orpheus & E (feat. Patrick Belaga) (3:56)
06. Haze of (2:45)
07. Shifted (3:42)
08. Thread (1:53)
09. After The Storm (3:17)
10. Seaweed (4:55)
11. Eye of Eurycide (1:50)
12. Sketch For Zoe (3:04)