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01. Luke Sanger - 6am Beach Walk
02. Luke Sanger - Flutter Env
03. Luke Sanger - Solid Steps
04. Luke Sanger - Poppers
05. Luke Sanger - Beneath the Mausoleum
06. Luke Sanger - Loop John B
07. Luke Sanger - Morning Person
08. Luke Sanger - Natural Light
09. Luke Sanger - Open Sauce
10. Luke Sanger - Terraform
11. Luke Sanger - Living Algorithms
12. Luke Sanger - Universal Vibrational Frequencies
13. Luke Sanger - Vibraphone Home
ARTIST
TITLE
Dew Point Harmonics
FORMAT
LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
BALMAT 012LP BALMAT 012LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
11/1/2024

Balmat began its journey in 2021 with the release of Luke Sanger's Languid Gongue (BALMAT 001LP). Now, in 2024, the Norfolk musician rejoins the label with Dew Point Harmonics, the first repeat appearance on the label. Sanger's new album feels like a natural extension of his inaugural record for Balmat: It's a bewitching collection of esoteric synth sketches that slips unpredictably between consonant repetition, poignant melodies, and gnarled bursts of noise that catch in the ear like burrs in hiking socks. That natural metaphor is perhaps not accidental. Despite having been composed on Sanger's diverse array of hardware and self-written software, many of the tracks were first conceived while Sanger was hiking in a particularly wild and isolated section of the Norfolk coast. The field recording that opens the album, on "6am Beach Walk," was taken on one of his many early-morning walks there, in which he and his dog might go for miles without seeing another soul. The album's title was inspired by the overnight condensation covering the long marram grass in the dunes, glistening in the early light (and drenching everything coming in contact with it) before evaporating in the morning sun. Indeed, the concept of dew point -- the temperature at which water vapor condenses into a liquid -- feels like the perfect metaphor for Sanger's music, in which foggy ambience is distilled into glistening quicksilver orbs, transient spheres of perfection eventually absorbed back into the atmosphere. A shapeshifting collection of richly detailed and deeply expressive electronic miniatures, Dew Point Harmonics is both a testament to the mysteries of transformation and an invitation to get lost in the wilderness of your own imagination.