From the depth of transient memories comes \u2018Some Leaves Must Fall \u807d\u5176\u81ea\u7136\u2019, Temple Rat\u2019s latest EP and the inaugural release for Martin Gillesh\u00f8j\u2019s \u2018Buttheads\u2019 label.<\/p>\n
Across 6 tracks Temple Rat distills fragments of spatial memory, merging conceptual ambience with the mystic, spatial, and driven edges of deep trance and hypnotic techno. A pensive and functional synthesis, one played out like an ode to the sustained.
\nThrough 2024 while moving between Berlin and Sichuan, Temple Rat conceptualized and finished \u2018Some Leaves Must Fall \u807d\u5176\u81ea\u7136\u2019. At its core, the work is an exploration of how the personal memory of cities and their particular acoustic environments can be transmuted in musical form. For these places, altered by the passing of time and the shifting of contexts, mirror the fluid and generative nature of sound itself.
\nCreatively this approach was borne out in a kind of archaeology of sound: by sampling and capturing auditory fragments Mei was able to preserve otherwise fleeting moments of experience. Sonics which not only embodied the emotions of the present but served too as a mechanism of recall, pulling memory back into focus even against the erasures of time.
\nIn its method this project seeks to transform the sonic textures of urban and natural environments into high-energy dance tracks, exploring the tension between the certainty of space and the uncertainty of time. A tension operating not only within the structural logic of the sound itself, but so too as an affective experience, extending into the listener\u2019s body and perceptual field.
\nFor we are not the first to note that in a world of pervasive temptation and fragmented information, sustained listening has become rarified. Through this project, Temple Rat hopes to counter this tendency; to encourage a deeper mode of listening that restores attention, re-establishing our essential connection with the present.<\/p>\n
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A1 Sichuan \u897f\u5411\u8700\u90fd 2:30
\nA2 Snake Dream \u86c7\u5922 7:02
\nA3 Moon Cave \u6708\u6d1e 7:07
\nB1 Elsen Bridge \u4e09\u4eba\u6a4b 2:53
\nB2 Cloud Ladder \u96f2\u68af 7:01
\nB3 Fly! My Paprika \u98db\u5427\uff01\u6211\u7684\u7d05\u8fa3\u6912 7:05<\/p>\n
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