(Experimental, Ambient, New Age) White Rainbow - 21 Exoticism ESCAP - 2015 [WEB] (Leaving Records # LR077), FLAC (tracks), lossless

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Analyzed: White Rainbow / 21 Exoticism ESCAP
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DR         Peak         RMS     Duration Track
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DR13       0.00 dB   -17.69 dB     25:43 01-Gentle Flight
DR9       -3.96 dB   -15.24 dB     10:33 02-Strong Pull
DR11       0.00 dB   -16.61 dB     10:40 03-Staged CC
DR14       0.00 dB   -19.33 dB     20:41 04-DX Cloud
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Number of tracks:  4
Official DR value: DR12
Samplerate:        44100 Hz
Channels:          2
Bits per sample:   16
Bitrate:           449 kbps
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White Rainbow is the solo project of Portland-based experimental/psychedelic musician Adam Forkner, who also played with Yume Bitsu and Surface of Eceon and works with Valet's Honey Owens as the duo World. As White Rainbow, Forkner plays music that is wide-ranging, encompassing lengthy pieces inspired by La Monte Young, Tangerine Dream, and Miles Davis, and he has also created multimedia installation works. In 2003, he released [[[[VVRSSNN]]]], which fused the space rock of Yume Bitsu with forays into electronic music, under his own name. That year, he also recorded several CD-Rs on his own and with members of Landing; the results were released in 2005 as ZOME. The simply named Box, a five-disc and DVD set, arrived a year later and featured the 2003 CD-Rs as well as footage from White Rainbow's installation pieces. White Rainbow released several albums in 2007, including that spring's Sun Shifts, which was released on Marriage Records; Sky Drips Drifts, which States Rights put out that summer; and Prism of Eternal Now, which arrived on CD that fall via Kranky (and was also released by Marriage Records on vinyl). Forkner toured in support of Prism of Eternal Now with Atlas Sound and Valet, and their deeper and trippier atmospherics inspired him to push his musical boundaries even farther on his next album. White Rainbow's second Kranky release, the sprawling, hypnotic New Clouds, arrived in fall 2009. ~ Heather Phares

“21 Exoticism ESCAP”, words from the White Rainbow:
4 dark purple clouds of supreme drift.
68 minutes of billowed drifted smears of complicated color
Gentle Flight – a thick synth and string pad opens as clouds do to show sparkles of sunny piano plink
Strong Pull – deep meditation on sadness
Staged CC – low rumble underbed, chimed shimmers, vocal swells
DX Cloud – Frequency Modulation Synthesis Cloud tribute to Steve Roach Structures from Silence. for floating to sleep relax
There are no memories of the creation of these 4 pieces.
“Time doesn’t exist when you’re in the zone”
A dark purple cloud of noir-ish melancholy envelopes and covers your surroundings
Stains your clothes
Imagine a man alone, in a darkened room, surrounded by the blinking lights of various music technologies
Its 11am, its 3am, its 6pm
Time blurs alone in this room
This is sound color painting for waiting, for accepting that waiting is not actually waiting
No.
No flights of fancy, no fantasy within the mind or in the networks
No escape
The sublime in this absurd
Exoticism, digital imperialism, 21 century spiritual escapism
All take us away from the simple beauty of our present condition
In rags as a beggar, or a mansion on the hill, surrounded by bowls of fruit
Sipping coffee on a porch in paris
On a cliff overlooking a vast green rainforest
In a yoga pose
In lululemon flexible sweat wicking tech fabrics
Or in dirt stained jeans
Mindfulness as corporate mandate
“Progress”, “success”, “achievement”, “self actualization” and “growth”
Return to the prison of eternal now
To reach outside of ones self is to fall into the traps of objectification
There is no 4th world
There is nothing but the world
A tiny bed, steps away
From the blinking lights of the various music technologies
And when the coffee and food and rest and the blurred hours and days
Align in some random confluence
With the machines
Everything melts
And the world is gone
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Synth and string shimmer and rumble from White Rainbow with 21 Exoticism ESCAP the second release in the Modern New Age series from Leaving Records. 4 tracks spread evenly across a sprawling c68. Sounds for inducing deep sleep or heightened awareness depending on your predilection. I’ve been a fan of Adam Horkner since coping a digital version (gasp!) of the massively minimal dancer Thru.u. This one is a dramatic departure from that, billowing washes of hypercolor that sweep side to side in ambient ambient bliss. And as far as ambient stuff goes, it’s kind of not. Production is big and bold, nothing damaged or crumbling, no tape hiss. While each track takes it’s course, and presents itself in varying states all things end in completely out loud melody that translates as pure “new age” as the series must intend.
Edition of 150 handpainted clear shells housed in a beautiful reflective rainbow ocard. I’m a little perplexed at the lack of any sort of labeling on the package whatsoever. Just for reference I handwrote a note so I can remember what the heck tape this is a year from now. Visit Leaving Records site for details, and they’ll link you out to Stones Throw for purchase. As an aside, be prepared to pay six bucks to ship a single tape stateside… yea..ok...