Published
Thu, Aug 6, 2020, 22:43
- Touching The Sublime was inspired by the minimal and glitch pioneer's explorations in the wilderness around Vancouver.
Tomas Jirku is releasing an album on Silent Season in September.
Touching The Sublime is the Vancouver producer's first full-length in a decade, largely informed by his explorations of the wilderness in British Columbia. The title refers to the idea of the sublime—"where an overwhelming experience of awe confronts us with the limits of our rational minds," according to the label. The album uses guitar and other heavily processed sounds to create a "a synesthetic auditory expression of Romantic era prose and stories of early alpinism," as Silent Season also notes.
The LP will come with a book featuring landscape photography taken by Jirku himself.
Jirku is a staple of Vancouver's ambient and experimental scene, and was an important force in the early days of glitch and minimal techno, when he released records for labels like Force Inc. Music Works, Alien8 and Substractif.
Watch a video teaser for the album.
Listen to clips from Touching The Sublime.
Tracklist
A1 A Warm Place
A2 Pele & Surtr
B1 The Iliad & The Odyssey
B2 Hypoxia
C1 Tectonic Monument
C2 Idiis Mortii
D1 Entropy8
D2 Eyeless Through Space
