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01. ROLY PORTER - Cloud
02. ROLY PORTER - Gravity
03. ROLY PORTER - Birth
04. ROLY PORTER - Sequence
05. ROLY PORTER - Giant
ARTIST
TITLE
Life Cycle of a Massive Star
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
SUB 005CD SUB 005CD
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RELEASE DATE
11/5/2013

Two years after his landmark debut Aftertime, former Vex'd member Roly Porter presents his second full-length LP, Life Cycle of a Massive Star. The piece explores expansive scale and macroscopic processes through the thematic framework of the birth and death of a cosmic star system. The album is underpinned by a parallel investigation into the human response to this vast celestial order and its overarching dialogue with the infinitesimal lives we lead. The material considers the crucible of space as a poignant symbol of the brevity of existence and highlights humanity's part as both observers and participants in an endless cosmic cycle of creation and destruction. While the album continues on from Porter's previous work, through fractured eruptions and volcanic textures, it equally invokes a more historical mode of reflection, enacting a distant remembrance of the history of electronic music and a dream-like recollection of a Wagnerian landscape.