Rrose - Spore on EAUX

Rrose delivers a new Techno (Raw / Deep / Hypnotic), “Spore”, now available on EAUX. Released on 2023-06-02. Download now.

Album Insights – Spore

Artists: Rrose

Genre: Techno (Raw / Deep / Hypnotic)

Release Date: 2023-06-02

Label: EAUX

Catalog: EAUX1691S1

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Behind the Techno (Raw / Deep / Hypnotic) : Release Notes

Eaux proudly announces the second full length LP from Rrose, Please Touch, released on vinyl, CD, and digital download on the 26th of June 2023. The LP follows 2019s Hymn to Moisture in ways that are both subtle and striking: Please Touch further hones the artists tensile sound while exploring new aesthetic vistas and basking in an undeniably erotic sense of play. Moving with undulating power, the albums nine tracks drift across tempos from a weightless 0 bpm to a crawling 100 to a lunging 140 and back, with a rich palette of sculpted noise and cross-talking microtones. Rroses compositional process, rooted in their studies with West Coast avant garde trailblazers at Mills College, centers on seed sounds being fed through elaborate webs of interrelated audio processing. The result is a world where changes in any one element have downstream implications for some or all the others. Its a rich interdependence that lets the tracks breathe, grow and mutate with uncanny organicism. Please Touch addresses in equal measure the perceptual and the corporeal: these are sounds that sink into the body, exhibiting a tactility that pushes, pulls, bends and yields with fearsome vibrancy. The album splits its time between radical techno iterations and pieces which pare back the percussion, letting the synth textures uncurl in their own time and space. The quivering drone and rolling sub-bass of Joy of the Worm set the tone for the record, while Rib Cage, Spore and Spines swing with stepping rhythmic underpinnings. Building with finely calibrated tension, they use their few elements to startling, snarling effect. Pleasure Vessels is a rare moment of becalmed introspection in Rroses oeuvre, hinting at a melodic ambiance that is practically unseen in previous works. It glows with a soft, dawn-like light before dissolving into a tidal fizz. The Illuminating Glass brings the tempo down to a languorous chug, nodding its way through a field of glistening chirps and leaden gasps. Feeding Time, Disappear and album closer Turning Blue meanwhile nod to the cerebral psychedelia of Rroses forebears, with mesmeric, looping textures and long, magisterial tones not dissimilar to the spectral works of James Tenney (whose work Rrose regularly performs) and the deep listening pieces of Pauline Oliveros. The title of the album refers playfully to the tactile quality of the music while hinting at a forbidden sensuality that is only permitted within the confines of this microcosm. The phrase is also another nod to Marcel Duchamp, who gave this title to a 1947 exhibition of Surrealist art. Across the nine tracks, Rrose follows the lead of the sound(s) rather than trying to impose on the flow of the sonic material. Each move changes the parameters of a tracks evolution. Thus, a non-hierarchical, symbiotic relationship forms between the so-called music-maker and the music itself. Please Touch acts as a collection of limbs, organs, parasites, and growths which both devour each other and keep each other alive.