Visible Cloaks Reassemblage Visible Cloaks’ Reassemblage is a collection of delicately rendered passages of silence and sound that invokes – and invites - consciousness. The foundation of the duo’s second album is gently poured upon the ground their musical predecessors explored, using the materials of chance operations, MIDI “translation,” and other generative principles that favor inclusive musical environments over the narrowly constrained. In 2010, Spencer Doran, one part of Visible Cloaks alongside Ryan Carlile, prepared the first volume ofFairlights, Mallets, and Bamboo, a mixtape indicated by Doran as “an investigation into fourth-world undercurrents in Japanese ambient and pop music, years 1980 - 1986.” These mixes contextualized the outré orbit of Yellow Magic Orchestra-related solo projects and their abstract, radiant forays as forever futuristic modes of music. Reassemblage evokes similar musical futures celebrated on the Fairlights mixes, but does so observantly rather than reverently. The title Reassemblage, for example, is taken from a film essay byTrinh T. Minh-ha, which explores the impossibility of ascribing meaning to ethnographic images. The author aims to “speak nearby” rather than “speak about.” In other words, to embrace lapses of understanding, and realize that the impulse to map direct meaning across a cultural gap often results in further disconnect. In an effort to “speak nearby” rather than “speak about,” Visible Cloaks Track Listing RVNG Intl. filters and forms source material to become young again. Often the duo strip 1. Screen PO Box 20752 tonal elements of their specificity or randomize melodies so they become 2. Valve (ft. Miyako Koda) Tompkins Sq. stirring and lucid. Essential patterns emerge, conscious experience heightens. 3. Bloodstream New York NY 10009 In these moments, the musical language of Reassemblage finds unlimited 4. Terrazzo (ft. Motion Graphics) 5. Wintergreen [email protected] resonance and presents a path to uninhabited realities. 6. Circle 718 812 8443 The origin of this language could be described as translingual or 7. Mask polyglottal, working within the eastern / western feedback loop of influence, 8. Mimesis UPC Fourth World ambiguity, and the universality of human emotion. Incorporating 9. Skyscraper LP— 716670165627 an international array of virtual instruments to advance the idea of pan- 10. Neume (ft. Matt Carlson) 11. Place globalism through digital simulation, tones and colors cohere into a living, 12. Cave (Bonus Track) breathing pool of sensorial experience in Visible Cloaks’ environs. 13. Imprint (Bonus Track) Beyond embracing the fluidity of worldly musical influences, Visible 14. Moon (Bonus Track) Cloaks works fluently between mediums. The contribution of stalwart digital 15. Visible Cloaks & dip in the pool CD— 716670165610 Valve (Revisited) and installation artist Brenna Murphy’s dream dimensions to Reassemblage’s cover artwork and surrounding videos extends the album’s exploration of Cat# global headspace into a visual, visceral reality. RVNGNL37 Additional Information Artist • Hometown: Portland, OR Visible Cloaks • Key Markets: New York, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles, Berlin, Los Angeles, Title Chicago, Paris Reassemblage • RIYL: Ryuichi Sakamoto / Harumi Hosono, Franco Battiato, Roberto Musci & Giovanni Venosta, Erik Satie, Yasuaki Shimizu and Seigen Ono, Eno :~) Genre • Reassemblage is Visible Cloaks’ second album and their first for RVNG Intl. Avant-Garde / Ethnoambient / Interplanetary Folk Music / Musique Plastique • Reassemblage follows in the footsteps of Visible Cloaks’ influentialFairlights, Mallets and Bamboo and Interiors mix series Release dates • Early press support from Resident Advisor, FACT, Fader, Tiny Mix Tapes, and February 17, 2017 more Formats • Reassemblage features artwork and surrounding videos from stalwart LP / CD / Digital Exclusively distributed by digital and installation artist Brenna Murphy Vinyl Is Not Returnable SC Distribution • Reassemblage vinyl comes packaged with a unique holographic obi strip t: 812 335 1572 Box Lot f: 888 678 0167 LP— 23 Inner, 46 Master Carton CD— 80 Inner, 320 Master Carton US domestic sales contact Shelly Westerhausen [email protected] International sales contact Lauren Brown [email protected].