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ARTIST
POWELL
TITLE
Flash Across The Intervals
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
A FOLDER
CATALOG #
AF 018LP
AF 018LP
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
10/23/2020
Flash Across The Intervals
is the first new
Powell
LP since 2016's
Sport
on XL Recordings, and the first music available physically since his 2018 collaboration with Turner-Prize winning artist
Wolfgang Tillmans
.
Oscar
(Powell) wanted it known that this is not intended as a definitive album, the realization/release of some bold new statement, a singular mark of identity or triumphant elucidation of years of valiant work. Rather, it is simply 35 minutes of music segmented from an overall flow of stuff, a variable torrent of hyper-synthetic composition brought about by entirely other things -- circumstances that relate in no way to a previous life led within an occasionally toxic bubble of taste, music, entertainment, and "community". As
René Char
once wrote, "
No bird has the heart to sing in a thicket of questions
," and so it is that we can become bereft of courage, stripped of any enduring connection to our work, dissociated from many of the fragile and reactionary structures that previously held us up. When the illusion of reality dissolves around you, how can you not think as Leibniz once did: "
We thought we had arrived at port, but found ourselves thrown back out on the open sea.
" It is easy to be molded by a contemporary space that leaves you with no possibility of creating anything at all; in a kind of zero state of expression that inevitably forces you to look elsewhere ➜ to pursue a
Deleuz
ian line of escape out towards a horizon line that never draws closer. Here, at least, out on the waves, new cartographies can be traced and new connections formed. This "album" thus functions as a message in a bottle: cast from unknown coordinates, it maps some of these connections, not least in its close relationship with the visual work of
Michael Amstad
and Marte
Eknæs
(afolder.studio). Their imagery inflates this sleeve; the music inflates their films. What emerges from the fog is a luminous three-headed constellation of melodic lines in non-sensical interplay with one another. Here on record, spinning at a speed of your choosing and with eyes closed and no imagery to hand, the feeling persists of a deep decentering, music discontinuously carbonated by a different geography of relations, the depths of which this music begins to explore. Includes double-sided, four-panel printed insert; edition of 250.
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