HOLODEC - Tru Folk - LP - Vinyl [APR 17]
Label: Phantom Limb
Barcode: 5053760141181
Catalogue ID: PHNTM59
Format: Vinyl
LP - Standard Edition Black Vinyl.
“An irresistibly narcotic sonic palette… Low-lit sounds for blissed-out ravers.” FACT
LA electronic artist Holodec debuts on Phantom Limb with hypnotic new album TRU FOLK, a subtle and environmentally sensitive documentation of everyday life for distant synthesis, interwoven field recordings, and urban haze. Described as “both a folk record and an audio document” by Holodec - aka West Coast producer Jieh - TRU FOLK draws from 15 years of field recordings that capture a range of environments from city life to the domestic everyday.
These audio narratives form the foundation of the considerately textured representation of the same spaces that make up the record - full of earthen, grounding synthesis, semipresent melodies, and smogged-out tonal palettes. It occupies a zone somewhere between tangible and dreamlike, treating sound as “evidence of living rather than an escape from it.
Tracklist:
A1. marking time
A2. under heaven's weight A
A3. reception
A4. quiet water, loud water
B1. children of the bay
B2. volk rays
B3. ethnograf
B4. tru folk