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‘Cup’ new album by AeTopus (Bryan Tewell Hughes) in Peaceful Radio Show 1564

25 October 2023 Uncategorized

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Named for the Zen parable of the Broken Cup, which teaches acceptance in the face of misfortune, Cup is a new album of solitude and celebration by veteran electronic music artist AeTopus (Bryan Hughes), and his first release on Spotted Peccary Music label. On Cup, AeTopus explores humanity’s place in nature through a stunning synthesis of electronic beats and rhythmic structures combined with saturated ambiences of enduring beauty. Here, he captures the calm and wildness of the forest in thirteen tracks of complex time signature serenity, suggesting the solace found when, divested from external pressures, one embraces their own impermanence.
When composing, AeTopus builds lush soundscapes from pulsing electronic sequences and traditional percussion, then subtracts and subtracts from them. As a trained visual artist, AeTopus learned the value of negative space and applies that knowledge to these compositions. This approach leaves fragments of interlocking elements with simultaneous sparseness and complexity. “Pure” ebbs and flows around an odd-meter beat, briefly interrupted by sylvan guitar. “Glance” swells from a stuttering warble into a subtle, propulsive rhythm. “Access” hypnotizes with its strobing beat, a darkly reflective counterpoint to the album’s peacefulness. Ultimately Cup is a work of passion that demonstrates the artistic process throughout all the pieces with such refined, beautiful expression.In AeTopus’s own words: “Cup is the product of my time in the natural world, and of the realization that the universe is scarcely affected by the triumphs, tragedies, and day-to-day lives of even the greatest of personalities, the mightiest of nations, or the most enduring of belief systems.” Cup is an album of exploration and acceptance, a celebration of our place in the cosmos, however small it may be.

Track Listing

  1. Pure (4:45)
  2. Clean Break (3:40)
  3. Relic (6:34)
  4. Beam (5:45)
  5. Sygna (5:10)
  6. Drue (4:25)
  7. They Know (4:57)
  8. Glance (2:06)
  9. Access (4:48)
  10. Sundial (5:24)
  11. Advent (4:14)
  12. Memento (4:56)
  13. Softgreen (7:02)

 

 

 

 

 

 

AeTopus is the innovational music project of Bryan Tewell Hughes, a multi-media artist whose music is influenced as much by art, nature and the human experience as it is by a singular idea or moment in his life; the moniker AeTopus, suggests a merging of time (Ae), while “Topus” loosely means place. A life-long musician, Hughes began classical piano training at age 6, moving through musical immersions in heavy metal and punk, eventually being drawn to join the sonic slipstream of ambient and electronic music. When not creating new sounds with analog and digital synthesis, percussion, field recordings or found objects in his downtown Bellingham, WA-based studio, Hughes finds inspiration in his family, exploring the visual arts, and hiking the mountain trails. In his two decades as an independent artist, Hughes created seven albums and two EPs before bringing AeTopus to the Spotted Peccary family of artists. He has won a Zone Music Reporter Award (ZMR) for Best Electronic album and earned three Best Electronic album nominations. Cup is his first album on Spotted Peccary Music.

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