The Homeland of Electricity (DiN72), by Scanner

The Homeland of Electricity (DiN72)

by Scanner

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eugene51 A fantastic album fom Mr Rimbaud, different from, but as good as, An Ascent. Favorite track: Another Aircraft.

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	1.	You and Me 05:57
	2.	Air in the Air 05:09
	3.	Another Aircraft 05:28
	4.	Grain, Letting Go 05:01
	5.	Beginning of an Unknown Century 05:32
	6.	Artemovsk 05:31
	7.	At last it moves into silence 03:46
	8.	Heaven Research Unlimited 04:08
	9.	Acentria 04:54
	10.	Traces upon Traces 04:18

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The second album for the DiN imprint by British Electronic Musician Scanner sees Rimbaud utilising a different toolset from his first album, An Ascent (DiN63), released in July 2020. Here he focuses in on several Elektron instruments such as the Analog Four, Analog Rhythm and Digitakt. Whilst his debut album was forged live in his studio during the start of the global pandemic here Rimbaud was after a lighter, more optimistic tone.

Rather prophetically Rimbaud states that this album was indebted to the work of the Ukranian film maker Laris Shepitko. Indeed the title of the sixth track “Artemovsk” references the birth place of Shepitko. Furthermore the title of the album, “The Homeland of Electricity”, is taken from her 1968 film which was commissioned by the government to celebrate the October Revolution’s 50th anniversary, but was rejected by the authorities for not being patriotic enough.

At times the music has a sense of blissful calm such as the opener “You and Me” with layers of texture slowly rising & falling to unveil hidden depths to the soundscape. Rimbauds love of the human voice as a musical element can be heard in the tracks “Another Aircraft”, “Artemovsk” and “At last it moves into silence” albeit with very different sonic outcomes. Fluctuating between darker elements displayed in such tracks as “Air in the Air” and “Beginning of an Unknown Century” in the end the album reveals a sense of hope which is no more apparent in the joyous simplicity of “Acentria”.

As Rimbaud puts it “this album feels like a sound polaroid of this exact moment in time, capturing our times in atmospheric sound works, where light will be found again, even in the midst of struggle”.

credits

released June 17, 2022

Written, performed and produced by Robin Rimbaud.

Recorded at the Factory 01.2022.

Instrumentation:

1010 Music Blackbox
eKalimba NBuck Tooth Nyunga Nyunga
Elektron Analog Four MK1
Elektron Analog Rytm MKII
Elektron Digitakt
Eurorack Modular System
Eventide H9
Hologram Electronics Microcosm

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The DiN ambient label was set up by Ian Boddy in 1999 to release ambient electronica that bridged the gap between the analogue sound of the early 70's synth pioneers and the digital soundscapes of the more experimental modern exponents of electronic music. ... more