{"product_id":"bis032","title":"E Ruscha V - Who Are You","description":"\u003ch3\u003eCAT: BIS032\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRelease Date:\u003cbr\u003e March 02, 2018 (digital)\u003cbr\u003e March 02, 2018 (physical)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWho Are You\u003c\/em\u003e is a new collection of free form, free flowing music from \u003cstrong\u003eE Ruscha V.\u003c\/strong\u003e A wandering, wondrous search for identity rendered in brilliant musical shapes and forms, \u003cem\u003eWho Are You\u003c\/em\u003e resides in the transitional realm between calm and ecstasy. A meaningful moment along an artist’s transcendent path of self-discovery, and meaningful music to those who identify with a conscious universe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWho Are You\u003c\/em\u003e is the first full-length release by \u003cstrong\u003eEddie Ruscha\u003c\/strong\u003e under his given name since donning the \u003cstrong\u003eSecret Circuit\u003c\/strong\u003e guise in 2010 to administer an electronic antidote to the psychedelic \/ shoegaze dirge that dominated his formative music-making. Between Secret Circuit’s two 12” EPs and a colossal full length, \u003cem\u003eTactile Galactics\u003c\/em\u003e, on Beats In Space in 2013 and now, Ruscha has remained wildly prolific producing unfathomable four-on-the-floor formulas for the best and brightest labels outside of Space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Secret Circuit hiatus suggests a return to self and an unmasked, untethered musical language, an approach Ruscha describes as “exploring melody that can mutate as different shades of beauty.” Rhythm plays a supporting role on \u003cem\u003eWho Are You\u003c\/em\u003e, an album with less concern over club constrictions and more contemplation of open, unbound spaces, areas in which Ruscha sees the music capturing “the feeling of a lost day.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWho Are You\u003c\/em\u003e further pares down the dub, tropicalia, and Afro \/ cosmic influences that have historically placed Secret Circuit at the dance music fringe, repurposing them as concerted instrumentals whose melodic themes are so lyrical they appear song-like, expressive without words. Brought to mind are similar instrumentalists such as \u003cstrong\u003eVini Reilly\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eWally Badarou\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eMark\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eClive Ives\u003c\/strong\u003e of \u003cstrong\u003eWoo\u003c\/strong\u003e, and contemporaries such as \u003cstrong\u003eGaussian Curve\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eSuzanne Kraft\u003c\/strong\u003e, a collaborator of Eddie’s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA blend of electronic instruments with added emphasis on the ‘human touch’ of indigenous strings and guitar creates a parallel universe to \u003cem\u003eWAY\u003c\/em\u003e. On one track, the Yamaha CS-80 synthesizer adds an immersive, score-like quality to the music, reanimating the romantic sides of the album’s retrospective influences without vintage fetishization. On the other, ECM jazz chords velcro to percussive patterns in compositions that feel simultaneously open-ended and total. The exploratory quality of the tracks when intersected embraces a sense of wandering and the album’s intentional ‘lostness.’\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRuscha describes \u003cem\u003eWho Are You\u003c\/em\u003e as spanning states “from calm to ecstatic but mostly in-between these.” Though it’s an elliptical view, the description points toward the liminal atmospherics of the music, which dispose of the many hallmark genre traces that informed Secret Circuit’s galactic journeying. 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