Nathan Harper // Hymns for Animatronic Dinosaurs TAPE

アメリカ・アラバマのアンビエント作家Nathan Harperが、2026年6月にNYの地下レーベルJolliesからリリースしたカセットです。

郷愁アンビエントドローン9曲を収録。DLコード付属。

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Includes DL code.
Cassette in norelco case.

Tracklist:

1. Moment of Silence 06:21 
2. Bastille 03:55
3. Debridement of Cybernetic Flesh 05:12
4. Carrington 04:55
5. The Haptic Void 05:02
6. Laschamp 03:18
7. Arguments Between Storm Gods 06:00
8. Miyake 05:20
9. Dawn of the Final Day 04:09

From the label:

"On Hymns For Animatronic Dinosaurs, Nathan Harper constructs a world where circuitry trembles, tape warps, and machines seem to sing their own extinction songs. The album unfolds as a series of apocalyptic hymns—not for humanity, but for technology itself.

Each piece moved through multiple exchanges between digital and analogue: fragments routed to tape loops, processed live through pedals, re-captured, eroded, and reshaped. Spatial depth and texture weren’t applied at the end—they emerged from the physical movement of signal itself. As a result, these tracks exist as complete performances rather than editable assemblies. They are as much acts of noise-making as music-making, fixed in the moment of their becoming.

The album is guided by an unease with technological permanence. Harper draws from historic solar and geomagnetic disturbances—the Carrington Event, which damaged telegraph networks; the Bastille Day Event, which disrupted satellite communications; the prehistoric Laschamp Event, when Earth’s magnetic field weakened and partially reversed; and the ancient Miyake Event, identified through radiation traces in tree rings and powerful enough that a modern recurrence could devastate global infrastructure.

Framed as apocalyptic hymns, these pieces imagine a foretold “judgment day” not for humanity, but for the fragile architectures of wires, servers, and satellites we rely on. The paradox: animatronic dinosaurs—technological recreations of extinct giants, offering devotional songs to their own obsolescence.

Immersive, tactile, and quietly ominous, Hymns For Animatronic Dinosaurs lingers in the tension between reverence and collapse, treating distortion and decay not as flaws, but as the choir itself. "

Artist : Nathan Harper

Label : Jollies

Release date : 25th June 2026