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29/1/2023 0 Comments

Purple Decades - Journey Test (Beacon Sound)

What Your Ears Say & The Cover Looks LIke


What We Say

Seemingly designed to soundtrack the turning of oversized newspaper pages, the clinking of teaspoons as they stir multiple beverages during leisurely breakfasts & the pleasant realisation that you don't have much to do on a Sunday, are the unhurried piano playing & becalmed ambient sound waves struggling to raise an oscillation from Purple Decades & presented to the world by Beacon Sound.

What The Release Notes Say

'Journey Test' is composer and pianist Tristan Eckerson's first album under the moniker of Purple Decades, his new ambient project. While his past work has focused largely on solo piano, Purple Decades is an exploration into soundscapes, electronic textures, and hypnotic musical environments. While many tracks on the album still feature piano or keyboards in some form, the compositional approach is accompanied by extensive work with reverb, foley, and orchestral electronic arrangements, and some tracks have eschewed the piano completely, opting instead for immersive and texturally rich auditory journeys.

Each of the 8 songs on 'Journey Test' convey a sense of serene movement and cinematic scale, conjuring the horizon line of landscapes both distant and internal, a wordless dialectic between contentment and nostalgia. Tracks like the piano-driven 'Kagami' and the slow-building title track (whose crescendo brings to mind Sigur Ros) emphasize beguiling and cyclical melodies while 'Pathway' leavens the mood with a glacial sweep, all the while drinking from the same sense of wonder and openness that pervades the whole album.

In the artist's own words: "After many years of writing nothing but music for solo piano, I was ready for something new when I began the process of creating Journey Test. I wanted to take the same vibe and overall aesthetic that I had created with my solo piano work, but really strip down the compositional approach into something that focused on the sound itself. Basically bringing the background to the forefront. And instead of traditional instruments, I wanted to use electronic sounds, but still in a way that it sounded very organic, almost to the point where you didn't know if you were listening to an orchestra or a bunch of synthesizers. I didn't use a lot of different electronic instruments for the album, but rather I focused on what each instrument could bring to the table in terms of texture, noise, organic sounds, and subtle details that could all be combined into something that was an experience. Something that took the listener on an auditory journey without them having to make an effort to get there."


CREDITS
Composed and recorded by Tristan Eckerson
Mastered by Jason Powers
Design by Studio Bernhardt

Bio:
Purple Decades is the new Ambient project from Cincinnati based Pianist, Composer, and Producer Tristan Eckerson. In the past four years Tristan has released five full length albums and more than an album's worth of singles, both independently and with 1631 Recordings (Nils Frahm, Dustin O'Halloran, Hauschka), A Remarkable Idea (Bloc Party, Benoît Pioulard, Maxïmo Park, Robot Koch), Mellotron Records, 7K! Records, and Sonder House. He has toured through North America and Europe and has composed music for award winning commercials, short films, and web series. His music has received multiple sync placements in television and has been streamed over thirty million times worldwide. Most recently Tristan contributed a track to the 2022 Piano Day Compilation, released by German label Leiter and featuring artists such as Olafur Arnalds, Chilly Gonzales, and Balmorhea.

For a longer ambient soundbath slip into the warm waters of the Slow Ambient Playlist sometime.

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