Lapalux returns to Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder imprint for his fourth album. Amnioverse – “a sort of portmanteau of the amniotic sac and the universe,” he explains – revolves around notions of fluidity; that birth, life, death, and rebirth is a never ending continuum. This time round he brings us a new track, Earth, lifted from the upcoming album set to drop November 8th.
While 2017’s Ruinism was about sonic wreckage and deconstruction, with Amnioverse, the artist has taken a different approach, basing each track around a snippet of spoken word from “friends, lovers, and ex partners”, and building the music around it. He also reconnects with Icelandic vocalist JFDR (Jófríður Ákadóttir) as well as vocalist Lilia on several tracks.
“For me the real focus was that the whole record flowed” he says. “I worked on each song sequentially and wouldn’t stop working on a session until they fitted together and told the story that I wanted to tell.”
On Earth, he channels ethereal ideas through a new and ever-expanding modular synth set-up, injecting human emotion, and layering recordings of weather, wind, rain and fire, lending an elemental, celestial feel to the composition.
While 2017’s Ruinism was about sonic wreckage and deconstruction, with Amnioverse, the artist has taken a different approach, basing each track around a snippet of spoken word from “friends, lovers, and ex partners”, and building the music around it. He also reconnects with Icelandic vocalist JFDR (Jófríður Ákadóttir) as well as vocalist Lilia on several tracks.
“For me the real focus was that the whole record flowed” he says. “I worked on each song sequentially and wouldn’t stop working on a session until they fitted together and told the story that I wanted to tell.”
On Earth, he channels ethereal ideas through a new and ever-expanding modular synth set-up, injecting human emotion, and layering recordings of weather, wind, rain and fire, lending an elemental, celestial feel to the composition.
Initial inspiration for the album came from a photograph of James Turrell’s Twilight Epiphany Skyspace installation in Texas. “I looked at it every day for three years whilst making this record.” Lapalux explains, “People are sitting in what looks like a waiting room lit in a purple hue, looking up at the dark night sky through a rectangular hole in the ceiling. The image has so much depth and means so much to me…. it seems like we are all in that waiting room, waiting to be somewhere or go somewhere. That’s what I tried to encapsulate in this record.”
Previously, Lapalux’s sound has been championed by the likes of Pitchfork, Mixmag, FADER, FACT, Dazed, SPIN, The Wire, A.V. Club and many more. With Benji B, Huw Stephens, Lauren Laverne, Mary-Anne Hobbs and many others spreading his music across radio.
Listen to Earth below
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