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Transcend

by PURGATE

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  • Listening Party

     
    Join Aesthetical & Opal Tapes for a free listening party to celebrate the release of the new album "Transcend" by PURGATE. Stream the full album and chat with other guests during this special occasion.

     

  • Streaming + Download

    Pre-order of Transcend. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    Purchasable with gift card
    releases May 17, 2024

      €8 EUR  or more

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    CD Edition of 300 copies in 4 panel Digipak, matt lamination.

    Includes digital pre-order of Transcend. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    shipping out on or around May 17, 2024
    Purchasable with gift card

      €12 EUR or more 

     

1.
Starlight 06:16 video
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2.
Matter
3.
Solar Flare
4.
Dawn 06:56
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5.
Transcend
6.
Mist
7.
Dusk
8.
Closure

about

Frederic Arbour's musical output over the last twenty five years has been one of consistent, dark eyed focus. His project Visions and the collaborative Skorneg has issued abyssal dark ambient and textured minimal drones respectively. Further, the output of Stärker, his duo with Martin Dumais, published isolating industrial techno on Hospital Productions and Zhark, notable amidst a sea of clones for their conviction in utterly colourless productions, the sound of factories producing for a customer long since dead. Purgate feels like a conglomeration of this previous work with eyes set outward and upwards, space gazing instead of bowed toward the iron ball beneath all of our feet.

Opener ‘Starlight’ rubs its eyes open to a freezing morning shuffle. Pulsing effects bleating a line drawn through snow while hats wrinkle around the globular mass of the centre. It’s dubby heart obscured in a cloud of acrid smoke. ‘Solar Flare’ is a reverberant chorus of chirping metal delay lines entwined around a thick techno throb, a smokescreen of detail ready to disrupt anyones passage through the club. Things get more discordant and drawn away from the slope with ‘Dawn’. Again a motif of birdsong and animalia are chromed out and burnished at the polish. A vertigo music for the 3am swap out. ‘Mist’ offers a light touch, a clearing in the sky where the perfect black backdrop can be better felt, each repetition puncturing and punctuating a profound minimalism. We close, of course, with ‘Closure’, the weight repositioned into a rich sub burrowing. Wood and metal sound against one another as the sky touches the earth. Co-Released with Opal Tapes.

CD Edition of 300 copies in 4 panel Digipak, matt lamination. 8 Tracks. Running Time 49:46

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releases May 17, 2024

Mastering by Giuseppe Tillieci (Neel) at Ennislab

Stream Excerpts here on.soundcloud.com/dMo522G9E4t4cigu5

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