González arbeitet hier mit der physischen Präsenz von Klang: Rhythmen, Stimmen und elektronische Texturen werden, wie auch vom Label beschrieben, zerlegt, überlagert und neu zusammengesetzt. Aus diesen Prozessen entstehen Stücke, die sich zwischen Abstraktion und erzählerischer Andeutung bewegen, mal roh und industriell, mal verletzlich und zart. Auf dem Cover heißt es programmatisch: “This is a story about bodies that transform, merge, brutally separate, and become landscape.” Genau das wird hörbar: ein sich wandelndes, atmendes Gebilde aus Energie, Struktur und Emotionen. “Bi Gezur” erscheint als LP und digital.

“The retreat of the individual into the smallest possible space with as little dissonance from the hostile outside world as possible. Your own little utopia, your personal customized hell. Where something is lacking, the missing thing is made up in pure fantasy or made whole again adding a fitting prosthesis. Somewhat more refined in resolution, emotionally more accessible. References to 90s Electronica, Synthwave, film scores, West Coast hip hop and Industrial have been incorporated into the alloy of this chassis. Get in, light up a menthol, reflect, preheat, choose the right soundtrack and take off – rubber screeching. Or simply enjoy the soothing solitude in a stationary ride. Come with us”. (Pless/Everest)

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“It’s Not Quiet In The Void, by Annie Aries, takes you within the warm reaches of an expanse. Piercing you with softened shards of sound like sea glass, and high voltage threads woven into thick cord. Dawn, turning tangerine and bristling with potential. A slow lunge, undeniable change, an unveiling, recognition, intangible certainty like meaning within a dream, a threshold. Revelation settles and what is left is unknown, a seesaw between our pillars of understanding. It’s not quiet in the void, where there is ceaseless oscillation, where needles spin then settle then spin again, sustained by the constant of their unknowing. There is a stillness in the uninterrupted travel. It’s not quiet in the void, things appear distant, suddenly in front, only to settle far off. Surrounded in sound, you turn on the tap and liquid comes out in varied consistencies. Some lands on your shoulder and rolls slowly down your arm, thick like molasses, and some streams rapidly off your limbs, and some suspends around you, too light to fall any further. It all looks like water. It’s not quiet in the void, where the small becomes immense and the immense becomes small”. (Mimi Kind )

“The choice of the album title is related to the desire to explore sounds and push the mind far away, towards interdimensional worlds, moving from the dreamlike to the transcendental, from the naturalistic to the cosmic. The invitation to contemplation found in the ambient and more experimental tracks alternates, unlike the first release, with more rhythmic tracks. However, the most important part of this album and of Perpetual Bridge in general are the layers, the many tunes that, combined progressively, hypnotically and solemnly express the search for depth and sublime.

The love for certain reference to musicians in the areas of ambient, experimental, electronic music and trip hop are expressed through some little details composition choices that oriented Perpetual Bridge with her deep intent to experiment with genres hybridizations. Astral Departures tells of a journey, to the infinitely distant and unknown from our world but, simultaneously, to dreamscapes that, somehow, are vaguely familiar and microscopic. Bridges, echoes, synergies are created between our earth and the astral world (which can also be understood as an afterlife). This experience, to be lived as such, requires a departure, a sacrifice that also brings with it certain emotions and feelings.

With the depth sought in this project and the complex canvases that are created, the goal is to evoke immersive experiences in which sounds can generate the conception of very vivid images that allow the listener to travel in very odd atmospheres, but, at the same time, visually and melodically accessible.” (Everest Records).

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