Ténèbre - Terraform [full colour gatefold + inner sleeve / clear vinyl / 180 grams]

YUKU

£30.95

Format: 2 x 12" Vinyl
Catalogue No.: YUKU029
Release Date: 16 Sep 2022
Genre: Bass music

Tracklisting
A1 Tenebre - Dawn
A2 Tenebre - Ultramarine
A3 Tenebre - Frost
B1 Tenebre - Morph
B2 Tenebre - Scapes
B3 Tenebre - Climat01
C1 Tenebre feat. Parhelic Shell - Tocsin
C2 Tenebre - Out of Breath 2020
C3 Tenebre - Climat02
D1 Tenebre - Aalp
D2 Tenebre - Abstraction (alt take)
D3 Tenebre - Dusk

"The making of this album first started as a recollection of music and sound design I've produced over the last couple of years for events and installations - interactive and immersive AV experiences. It was like creating a specific atmosphere for visitors where I'd take them into this sensorial but artificial experience within a very confined spatial domain. This is how the "Climats" concept emerged.

Longer ambient and generative pieces thus found their own space in my repertoire, allowing me to explore more in-depth, non-linear execution with soft, moody and padded textures. Eventually, all this freeform material became available so I could extract parts of it to build more club-centered and straightforward tracks, but nonetheless, the list grew and all this softer-edged, more introspective works were aggregating over time.

At the time of the lockdown, it felt very natural to get back to it and finalize it as a cohesive whole. It was a very healing and a smooth process to work on these. From isolation, I could open this window to thoughts where I made up my very own Science Fiction story while working on the music. I really wanted it to be a one-hour soundtrack experience that I'd listen at home or driving while my mind would travel across all those musical scapes. It was never a formalized script, but the music spoke for itself with themes of anticipation, collapse, utopia, the world as we know it, the near and far future...

Creating the album was quite a sporadic production process that stretched over several years but it all came together and made a lot of sense in the context of the title I chose : TERRAFORM. The narrative of the album simply unfolds from Dawn to Dusk, and the listener navigates through the different climates that each track embodies."

- TENEBRE