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01. Mark Gomes - Martian Equinox
03. Mark Gomes - Lunar Module
04. Mark Gomes - Athanasia Jab
05. Mark Gomes - Ion Shower
06. Mark Gomes - Dropshaft
07. Mark Gomes - Distant Star
08. Mark Gomes - Zanzibar Sunrise
09. Mark Gomes - Vibraspray
10. Mark Gomes - Downbeam
11. Mark Gomes - Nova Spa
12. Mark Gomes - Alphane Mood
13. Mark Gomes - Driftglass
14. Mark Gomes - Solar Breeze
ARTIST
TITLE
Alphane Moods
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
SODA 010LP SODA 010LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
10/7/2022

Australia-based musician Mark Gomes presents the debut full-length under his own name for Soda Gong. Alphane Moods finds Gomes employing strategies that will be familiar to listeners of his work as Blue Chemise -- elegiac, loop-based modes of composition and a predilection for concise etude forms -- that manifest here with a strikingly different scope and intent, shifting from expressive abstraction into more conceptual terrain. Over the course of fourteen widescreen tracks, he navigates the gap between nostalgic and futurist sensibilities, concocting elusive, romantic, and sanguine settings that feel both plucked from the past and beamed in from a time still to come. Gomes describes his approach on the record as a "practice of 'constructed ambience', deploying sounds and track titles with pop-psychological associations of escape." The result is a vivid, cinematic album that splits the difference between the worldbuilding retrofuturism of the best vaporwave music and the shadowy, homespun tape vignettes for which Gomes has become well known. Written and produced by Mark Gomes. Master and cut by Kassian Troyer at Dubplates & Mastering. Artwork by Alex McCullough. Includes download code; edition of 500.