Visible Cloaks Announce 'Paradessence,' First Album in Nine Years, Share "Disque" Video
Visible Cloaks are back after nine years with 'Paradessence'. Hear the lead single, "Disque," featuring Motion Graphics.
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Visible Cloaks, the Portland-based ambient duo of Spencer Doran and Ryan Carlile, are set to release their first full-length album in nine years, Paradessence, on May 22 via RVNG Intl.
The duo has also shared "Disque," the lead single from the album. The track features Motion Graphics playing synthetic woodwinds, accompanied by a captivating music video.
Prior to this, Visible Cloaks released serenitatem, a collaborative album with ambient artists Yoshio Ojima and Satsuki Shibano, in 2019. Their last solo LP, Reassemblage, came out in 2017, followed by the mini-LP Lex the same year. Spencer Doran also curated the Grammy-nominated compilation Kankyō Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990 in 2019.
Paradessence derives its title from a portmanteau coined by author Alex Shakar, blending "paradoxical" and "essence." According to Visible Cloaks, this word encapsulates the oppositional yet coexisting concepts they aim to explore throughout the new album.
"Instead of creating pieces that function horizontally as environments, we wanted to conceptualize them as living material changing in space, continually in flux," Doran explained in a press statement.
Delve deeper into their journey with Philip Sherburne’s 2017 profile, Big in Japan: Visible Cloaks and the Power of Cultural Exchange.
Paradessence Tracklist:
01 Apsis
02 Skylight
03 Disque (feat. Motion Graphics)
04 Balloon
05 Slippage
06 Telescoping
07 Shapes (feat. Yoshio Ojima and Satsuki Shibano)
08 Thinking (feat. Félicia Atkinson, Yoshio Ojima and Satsuki Shibano)
09 Zinna
10 Swirl
11 Steel
12 Intarsia (feat. Ioana Șelaru)
13 Capgras
14 System (feat. Componium Ensemble)
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