Dominique Cyprès // Interregnum MMXXII TAPE

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本作は、アメリカのシンセ奏者Dominique Cyprèsが、2022年に20本限定でリリースしたカセットです。

シンセによるレトロフューチャリスティックなアンビエント〜ダークアンビエント15曲を収録。DLコード付属。廃盤です。

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Includes DL code. Cassette in norelco case. Tape edition of 20. 

Tracklist:

1. zombie capitalism 03:09
2. alienation 02:04 video
3. direct action 03:21
4. primitive accumulation 04:54
5. enclosure of the commons 02:06
6. spectacular relations 02:19
7. end of history illusion 01:32
8. perverse incentives 00:35
9. graveyard of empires 02:07
10. beethoven symphony No 7 allegretto 07:26
11. morbid symptoms 03:05
12. crisis of overproduction 02:20
13. the old is dying 02:28
14. the new cannot be born 04:51
15. seize the means 03:03

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Artist statement by Dominique Cyprès:

“In 2021 I put together three albums this way, working largely in moments when our infant second child was napping. The first was born out of the peculiar moment before most of us even in the US could be vaccinated against COVID-19, a moment when I had been at once inspired by many individual acts of kindness and self-sacrifice, and deeply embittered by what I saw as higher-level failures to prioritize human life and prevent mass death and mass suffering—musically influenced at times by 1970s "classitronic" pioneers like Tomita and Wendy Carlos, and incorporating some of my favourite western classical passages from childhood in a novel context. In a second album I took a more relaxed approach of exploring ambient soundscapes often inspired by physical places I had visited. And the third album was a concept piece meditating upon a fringe, but culturally significant American religious/political movement called Peoples Temple that ended in the notorious "revolutionary suicide" of their Guyanese agricultural settlement Jonestown in 1978. "Alienation" on Interregnum MMXXII is an alternate instrumental take of a track from this last album.

With Interregnum MMXXII I am once again regrettably channeling the anxieties of this historical moment. A sense that the weight of history is more unbearable than ever. That the United States exists in a state of slow imperial collapse, but also that the whole world rests on shaky ground, caught unprepared to face the challenges of a pandemic and of anthropogenic climate change. To that end it's a largely brooding album, following from the ambient sounds of previous work but with more dissonance and harsh timbres, inspired by the troubled history of our current world order. But I have also tried to leave space for the potential of a constructive common struggle to imagine and build a better world, evidenced in the titles "Direct Action" and "Seize the Means." I felt that a cold and thunderous arrangement of the Allegretto from Beethoven's 7th Symphony provided an excellent sonic centre for this album that otherwise comprises my own far-less-expert compositions. In my imagination the composition captures a moment of tumult that may help us maintain some perspective on the present, a moment of war engulfing the European continent just as its thinkers reached for humanistic and democratic horizons, and a confrontation with the great betrayal of Beethoven's one-time political saviour Napoleon.”

Artist : Dominique Cyprès

Label : Submarine Broadcasting Company