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01. NOVAK, YANN - Radical Transparency
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02. NOVAK, YANN - The Inertia of Time
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03. NOVAK, YANN - Casting Ourselves Back into the Past
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04. NOVAK, YANN - Nothing Ever Transcends its Immediate Environment
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ARTIST
NOVAK, YANN
TITLE
The Future is a Forward Escape Into the Past
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
TOUCH
CATALOG #
TO 105CD
TO 105CD
GENRE
ELECTRONIC
RELEASE DATE
2/23/2018
The Future is a Forward Escape Into the Past
is the latest album by Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary artist and composer
Yann Novak
, and his second for Touch. It considers the relationships between memory, time, and context through four vibrantly constructed tracks that push Novak's work in a new direction while simultaneously exploring his sonic past.
The Future is a Forward Escape Into the Past
is composed as a sonata -- a single gesture broken into four parts -- that meditates on the inevitable progression of time. The album's conceptual roots stem from
The Archaic Revival
(1991) by American ethnobotanist and psychonaut
Terence McKenna
. In it, McKenna theorizes that when a culture becomes dysfunctional it attempts to revert back to a saner moment in its own history. He suggested that abstract expressionism, body piercing and tattooing, psychedelic drug use, sexual permissiveness, and rave culture were proof of this default to a more primal time. The text's idealism was influential to Novak in the '90s, but the theory bears a darkly-veiled resemblance to the modern rise of nostalgia-driven nationalism. Novak on the release: "For this album I was interested in expanding into a more emotive compositional style and palette. In doing so, I was reminded that this was territory I had covered early on in my career -- the whole process became a way to reconnect with my own past and history." The album's four tracks dynamically shift and surge, where time is rendered as material and momentum compels it into movement. Subtle distortion throughout the album ties the tracks together and echoes techniques explored in Novak's
Meadowsweet
(2006). Tension gives way to a halcyon vision of place in "Radical Transparency", immediately followed by the austere swells of "The Inertia of Time", a piece that captures the twin impulse of generating optimistic beauty in harshly muted tones. Both tracks introduce subtle bass swells and stabs reminiscent of
In Residence
(2008). From there, the album grows darker with "Casting Ourselves Back into the Past" and "Nothing Ever Transcends its Immediate Environment", two icier tracks that preserve the album's core. The latter introduces a processed vocal sample of
Geneva Skeen
, similar to Novak's collaborative work with
Marc Manning
on
Pairings
(2007). The album is a study in perception and alteration, manipulation, and awareness, effectively capturing Novak's command of emotional texturing. Artwork & photography:
Jon Wozencroft
. Mastered by
Lawrence English
. Edition of 500.
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