SCANNER - HOMELAND OF ELECTRICITY (2022 DIN ALBUM/DIGI-PAK)

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2nd album from this British Electronic Musician on the DiN imprint and sees Rimbaud utilising a different toolset from the first one released in July 2020!

With ‘Homeland Of Electricity’, Rimbaud follows up his first album for the label with new music where he focuses in on several Elektron instruments such as the Analog Four, Analog Rhythm and Digitakt. Whilst his debut album was forged live in his studio during the start of the global pandemic, here Rimbaud was after a lighter, more optimistic tone.

Rather prophetically Rimbaud states that this album was indebted to the work of the Ukranian film-maker Laris Shepitko. Indeed the title of the 6th track: ‘Artemovsk’ references the birthplace of Shepitko. Furthermore, the title of the album: ‘The Homeland Of Electricity’, is taken from her 1968 film which was commissioned by the government to celebrate the October Revolution’s 50th anniversary, but was rejected by the authorities for not being patriotic enough.

At times the music has a sense of blissful calm, such as the opener: ‘You And Me’ with layers of texture slowly rising and falling to unveil hidden depths to the soundscape. Rimbaud’s love of the human voice as a musical element can be heard in the tracks: ‘Another Aircraft’, ‘Artemovsk’ and ‘At Last It Moves Into Silence’ albeit with very different sonic outcomes. Fluctuating between darker elements displayed in such tracks as: ‘Air In The Air’ and ‘Beginning Of An Unknown Century’ in the end the album reveals a sense of hope, which is no more apparent in the joyous simplicity of ‘Acentria’.

As Rimbaud puts it: “this album feels like a sound polaroid of this exact moment in time, capturing our times in atmospheric sound works, where light will be found again, even in the midst of struggle”.

Limited to just 500 Copies Worldwide this Limited Edition CD comes packaged in Digi-Pak.

‘Homeland Of Electricity’ was released on 17th June 2022.

Also available on DiN by SCANNER …
AN ASCENT (2020 Album / Digi-Pak) CD – Stock # 2204706

SCANNER: HOMELAND OF ELECTRICITY Track List:

01. You And Me (5:58)
02. Air In The Air (5:10)
03. Another Aircraft (5:29)
04. Grain, Letting Go (5:02)
05. Beginning Of An Unknown Century (5:33)
06. Artemovsk (5:32)
07. At Last It Moves Into Silence (3:47)
08. Heaven Research Unlimited (4:08)
09. Acentria (4:55)
10. Traces Upon Traces (4:19)

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