Jon Porras // Achlys LP [COLOR]

Barn Owlとしても活動しているアメリカのギタリストJon Porrasが、2025年11月にフランスの実験レーベルShelter Pressからリリースしたレコードです。

アンビエントドローン〜アンビエント8曲を収録。曇りマーブル盤です。

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12" cloudy marble vinyl.

Tracklist:

1. Fields 07:23
2. Before The Rite 04:43
3. Castilleja 04:03
4. Sea Storm 04:44
5. Achlys 06:21
6. Ceremony Stone 07:06
7. Holodiscus 03:23
8. Walking Void 04:16

Text excerpt by Shelter Press:

"Jon Porras possesses a rare acuity for locating the pulse of a sonic landscape and carving out its emotional core. His work has long drawn from the friction of organic forms and electronic processing, but Achlys finds him moving further into texture, erosion, and weight. This is music steeped in collapse—not as spectacle, but as slow process. These pieces do not unfold, they gather. Guitar, sub-bass, modular synthesis, and processed noise accumulate like sediment, layering into compositions that move more like weather systems than traditional songs.

Framed around the language of filmmaking, Achlys invokes overlapping frames, blurred edits, and disjunctive pacing. Porras cites the textural depth of the film 'El Mar La Mar' as a key influence, particularly its use of layered sound to evoke emotional density. The album navigates a sequence of fractured sonic vignettes: crumbling environments, monumental silence, and landscapes both real and internal. Structure becomes permeable. Each piece gestures toward both presence and disappearance.

Central to the record is a tension between form and formlessness. Fingerpicked guitar compositions were written, recorded, and then pushed through modular processing chains, where their original structure became blurred or buried. Often, multiple pieces were written in isolation and layered without synchronization, allowing intentional dissonance to guide the resulting textures. The approach favors drift and friction, with melodies ghosting through blurred intervals, creating tension between memory and distortion. [...]"

Artist : Jon Porras

Label : Shelter Press

cat no : SP159lp-C1