‘Noir’ new album by Chris Russell in Peaceful Radio Show 1585
18 March 2024 Uncategorized
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Since his 2009 debut Aralu, Chris Russell has released 29 electronic/ambient albums; Noir is his 30th and first solo release for Projekt Records. The textural moods are dark and intriguing, exploring the unfamiliar, dealing with loss and mortality. It’s an album full of mystery and phantasmic soundscapes enveloping the listener in 70 minutes of unearthly sonic moods. Russell‘s unanswered questions find glimmers of hope that someday all will be revealed.
“Noir began after I Iost my father,” Russell reveals. “Dealing with the experience of losing a parent was difficult. The artist in me wanted to express what I was feeling; often music has been the close friend that I rely on when things are complicated. I also wanted to pay a sort of tribute and introduce my listeners to the eclectic ways of my father and my upbringing. My dad was a long-time member of MUFON (The Mutual UFO Network) and had interests in the paranormal as well. I was raised with one foot firmly in the unknown which has been a major influence in my music and the art I create. This album has otherworldly themes and is at times melancholy. Though I didn’t want this album to be too dark, in fact the opposite. Death is the next step in the journey, so what is behind the veil. What’s next?”
Noir‘s glimmerings, shadows, caresses, murmurs and specters contained in these slowly evolving soundworlds move from a velvety luminous quality to columns of smoke and dissonant sonic vapor. Don’t let the title Noir throw you off. The reference to dark shades is where the light may be. Dark to light, light to dark, and shades of grey encompass this album from start to finish.
Track Listing
1 Visible Light
2 Scrying
3 Drift of Mist
4 Noir
5 The Grey Chamber
6 Forever In Blue
7 Underneath It All
8 Thin Veils
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