Label: Room40

ここRoom40と同じくオーストラリアにて活動、エレクトロアコースティックをベースとした音響的作風を得意とする音楽家Jwpaton。ソロ名義では4年振りとなるフルアルバムを出版。タンジェリンドリームがサントラを手掛けたマイケル・マン監督の1981年フィルム"泥棒"に触発された作品であり、一貫してシネマティックなイメージが続く躍動感の強い内容が面白い。厳つい音塊の投下や清涼に流れるフィールド録音など音ネタのセンスも秀逸、それらを駆使した過激なコントラストが最高。エンボス加工スリーブ、インサートカード付き。





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A Note from JWPaton

Anyone who knows me, knows my obsession with the 1981 film Thief. The opening scenes show a cold, methodical, neon lit diamond heist soundtracked by Tangerine Dream. Contrasted with, the thief sharing a danish with a stranger fishing on an endless ocean at dawn. The heist is technical and calculated. The fishing is grounded and ancient.

I'm sure that I'm projecting some of my personal experiences onto the film unfairly. As over time i've come to see the line between these two scenes more and more blurred. The contrast between night and day, city and ocean, drill and rod, I see these less as a dichotomy and more as a merging of worlds that slowly collapse in on each other.

Choosing tracks for this release highlighted ideas that I've returned to for years. Technology and its place in the natural world. The way labour and skill shape identity. How my ancestors were in many ways more advanced than the society I live in today. A kind of ancient futurism.