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Tangents -

Timeslips & Chimeras

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Released July 30, 2021

Genre: Alternative

Australian improvising ensemble Tangents return with a ‘twin’ release that sees 2020’s Timeslips complemented with a second album, Chimeras. The Timeslips tracks, which were released in digital-only form under the subdued circumstances of the first COVID wave, are remastered and reissued in the newly merged Timeslips & Chimeras package, receiving a full release on 2xLP, CD, and all digital platforms. Timeslips & Chimeras marks the third Tangents release issued through the iconic Brooklyn label Temporary Residence Ltd. (home to Mogwai, Explosions In The Sky, MONO, William Basinski and more).

The two albums were created in tandem, with much of the material recorded in one day at Sydney’s Free Energy Device Studios in 2018. Timeslips leans towards more literal takes on the studio-improvised material, with Tangents’ usual blend of ambiguous post-production treatment. Chimeras expands into more constructed passages of iterated overdubs, lo-fi electric jams, additional studio takes and splintered extracts from the Timeslips sessions, offering more extreme twists, turns and stylistic variation through doomy rock and dub drones, ecstatic superjazz and abstract collages.

This landmark double release comes 3 years after the release of New Bodies, the Australian Music Prize nominated album... more

credits

released July 30, 2021

Tangents are:
Ollie Bown: software, field recordings, synths
Evan Dorrian: drums, percussion, voice
Peter Hollo: cello, fx
Adrian Lim-Klumpes: piano, prepared piano, Rhodes, mallet percussion, organ, synths, fx