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ARTIST
TITLE
Face to Face, Day by Day
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
CATALOG #
HTRA 045LP
HTRA 045LP
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RELEASE DATE
9/13/2024
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Toronto-based musician and producer David Psutka aka ACT! presents his latest project Face to Face, Day by Day for his own Halocline Trance imprint. This is Psutka's third album proper as ACT! following the release of the "sonic mixtape" Universalist in 2018 and the augmented reality soundtrack Grey Matter AR Snapchat Compositions in 2021 (HTRA 015LP). "Everything on Face to Face, Day by Day began as an improvisation," Psutka says. "Openness to accidents and the emotional complexity that comes from centering them in composition has become important to my work, and helps the music go beyond the possibility of what is playable, imaginable. I also wanted to channel adventurous solo pop records of the 1970s and '80s, like Yasuaki Shimizu, Jon + Vangelis, and Stevie Wonder. These came from an interesting era in commercial music as studio production techniques became increasingly formalized as compositional devices, like AMS RMX16 percussion sounds and early digital stereo effects." In addition to ACT!, Psutka has released music with numerous projects including Anamai, Egyptrixx, and Ceramic TL, and he has collaborated widely with artists such as Junior Boys, Ipek Gorgun, and Kuedo, as well as Jessy Lanza (2016) and an official remix for Massive Attack's Hymn of the Big Wheel (2012). The contributions on this album, from Robin Dann and Ben Gunning, reflect the deeply collaborative nature of the Halocline Trance label and the Toronto creative scene more broadly. In 2015, Psutka launched Halocline Trance as a home for his various sound projects, events and collaborations. Now a creative collective and label, it has grown to include a diverse array of artists including Casey MQ, Xuan Ye, Myst Milano, Colin Fisher, and others. The label is described as "genre-agnostic" and conceptually open, supporting work across a wide spectrum of creative fields including soundtrack recording, AR design and traditional artist albums. Their impeccable roster also includes, theorist/improviser Eldritch Priest, and AR/VR artist Karen Vanderborght.
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