After returning to blow us all away with his amazing modular System LP (read the profile here from 2016), Mr. Fraioli (aka Datach’i) returns with an amazingly blissful, deep cut right out of the gate on the forthcoming Bones album. Although wonderfully similar to a Boards Of Canada track, there are no samples here, just a beautifully intricate and minimal soundscape of absolutely ear-pleasing synthesis work. “Rockledge 3A” has our ears drooling to hear the rest of the album!
[Press-Release] Datach’i‘s new Eurorack modular album Bones for Timesig was announced earlier last week. The artwork has been designed by The Designers Republic with artist Heather Dale and the first 500 orders via the Mu Store or Bandcamp are bundled with a free 19 track Bonus album of exclusive tracks. In addition to this, customers buying Bones from Bandcamp and the Mu Store will be put into a lottery for a TipTop Audio ONE sampler modular that comes loaded with a Datach’i sample card. The track “4X1” on the album is made entirely from sounds on this card.
Much like its predecessor, Bones manages to make the most of the possibilities modular systems offer, whilst avoiding their many pitfalls that can often turn such music into little more than a dry academic exercise. Indeed Bonesis a remarkably intimate album, written and recorded in the time following his father’s death, and reflects this intense period of personal change in Joseph’s life.“Creating this music was a therapy of sorts,” Joseph recalls. “It was almost like a close friend being there for me, and it’s something that I hope others can perhaps utilize in the same way.”
The resulting album grapples with the intensity of these emotions. But for all their weight, tracks like “Saugerties Road,” “Rockledge 3A,” and “Antumalal” transform that heaviness into something warm and comforting whilst the aforementioned “Arrivals” or “Wand” ultimately achieve some kind of escape velocity and soar. Ranging from blissful ambience and guileless, starry eyed melodies, to intricate claustrophobic rhythms that forever sound close to collapsing in on themselves before expanding into bold new patterns, Bones is the work of a producer who, twenty years on from his debut, continues to push the boundaries of electronic music.
Bones is available on Timesig July 26, 2019. [Datach’i :: Web | Facebook | Soundcloud]
Tracklisting ::
VINYL
A1 :: Akemies
A2 :: Rhys
A3 :: Motion In The Living Room
A4 :: Rockledge 3A
A5 :: Saiph
A6 :: Antumalal
B1 :: Undimension
B2 :: Drone Maze
B3 :: Wand
B4 :: 4X1
B5 :: Saugerties Road
B6 :: Arrivals
CD
01 :: Akemies
02 :: Rhys
03 :: Motion In The Living Room
04 :: Rockledge 3A
05 :: Saiph
06 :: Antumalal
07 :: Undimension
08 :: Drone Maze
09 :: Wand
10 :: 4X1
11 :: Saugerties Road
12 :: Arrivals
