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ARTIST
PLYXY
TITLE
Gloryland
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
HALLOW GROUND
CATALOG #
HG 1806LP
HG 1806LP
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
11/30/2018
Originally issued by Ascetic House as a small limited-run cassette release,
PLYXY
's
Gloryland
now be available on vinyl by Swiss imprint Hallow Ground. The nostalgia that informs
Gloryland
is PLYXY's longing for his cultural-geographic roots while feeling adrift in an alien environment. Born in Dnepropetrovsk, then the rocket-making capital of the USSR,
Knopov
immigrated to New York City as a child in 1989. In
Gloryland
, he dives deep into his uneasy childhood memories and their warped reflections. PLYXY marks the unreliability of his recollections by making it heard; the anthemic qualities of the five pieces are coated in an opaque layer of dream-like textures. From the elegiac opener, "It Will Be Beautiful", to the blaring rhythmic noise of "March of Youth", the greyscale picture painted by
Gloryland
becomes more and more refined below the surface. PLYXY's search for a past is, however, less a sentimental journey, and more a radical confrontation with the politics of memory and the materials that serve as mnemonic devices.
Gloryland
draws on field recordings from Knopov's adopted hometown New York and Soviet films as well as performances from his collection of analog and digital keyboards, with the results filtered and re-textured through the producer's modular synthesizer setup acting as the final editorial layer in the creative process. The result is lush and warm throughout, but also demure and distant.
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