Rafael Anton Irisarri - Solastalgia

Label: 		Room40 - RM4105
Format: 	7 × File, FLAC, Album
Country: 	Australia
Released: 	21 Jun 2019
Genre: 		Electronic
Style: 		Dark Ambient, Drone

Tracklist
1 	Decay Waves 	7:22
2 	Coastal Trapped Disturbance 	5:51
3 	Chrysalism 	6:09
4 	Visible Through The Shroud 	6:50
5 	Kiss All The Pretty Skies Goodbye 	5:56
6 	Black Pitch 	6:24
7 	Solastalgia (Suite One)


Companies, etc.
Mixed At – Black Knoll Studio
Mastered At – 158, Brisbane
Published By – Outer Worlds Publishing

Credits
Mastered By – Lawrence English
Written By, Recorded By – Rafael Anton Irisarri

Written & produced by Rafael Anton Irisarri in New York, USA during Autumn
2018. 

We find ourselves increasingly in a swell of solastalgia. Day to day, a vision
of what might come to pass builds; one dystopian impression at a time.
Solastalgia is not a new phenomena however, rather it has haunted us over the
centuries. Change has never been humanities’ strong suit, but it has been our
shadow. The perpetual ruptures in what we know and how we live are an
inevitability; time takes no prisoners, no matter how tightly we might grasp
things from moment to moment.

It’s here, at this fractious nexus of unpredictability and an absence of
control that Rafael Anton Irisarri has created his latest work. Building on the
echoes of landscape that guided his previous Room40 editions, Solastalgia
imagines that which is not yet known. It traces possible terminus points for
futures that many of us will not live to see. Utilising a range of unexpected
variables, automations and uncontrolled systems in the creation of the
recordings, Irisarri has developed a new approach to his work, seamlessly
weaving together intense layers of texture and saturated harmony.

Within these works, distant melodies emerge and in their wake the listeners’
focus shifts again and again. A never ending loop of the unconscious feeding
into the conscious is formed. Whilst...  more credits