Hieroglyphic Being - Quadric Surfaces - VINYL LP

Twice Grammy-nominated, Mercury Prize and BRIT Award-winning artist Arlo Parks announces her new album, Ambiguous Desire, due April 3rd via Transgressive Records. Ambiguous Desire is Parks at her most confident and experimental, supplanting live band sessions for modular synths, Ableton plugins and samplers that channel the frenetic, vibrant spaces she was immersed in, all while spotlighting the acclaimed poetry and lyricism she's beloved for. Reflecting on the making of the record, Parks shares, InchI danced more than ever as I made this record, I made more friends than ever too, found myself in the weird underbelly of New York juke nights, unleashed, laughed and laughed and laughed. This record has desire at it's centre. Desire is a life force, it's a wanting, a yearning, a momentum - we are all alive because there is something or someone we want - desire is an engine. But it is also mysterious, tangled, random, enlightening and HUMAN.Inch Parks crafted the album with producer Baird (Brockhampton, Kevin Abstract). Their process unfolded between NYC's vibrant, community-rooted nightlife and long, introspective days spent in Baird's downtown loft. The result is Parks' most vulnerable, self-affirming, and euphoric work to date. 140g black 12Inch vinyl, Gatefold sleeve, reverse board with spot gloss to the front, 12Inch mirri-board inner sleeve, reverse board, Fold out poster and insert

Stunning new album from Chicago's finest electronic futurist Hieroglyphic Being, aka Jamal Moss, newly released on Soul Jazz Records. This is his third album for the tag, following on from The Acid Documents (2015), and African With Mainframes (w/ Noleian Reusse) K.M.T. (2016).Born and based in Chicago, Moss's music embodies two of the cultural foundation blocks of the city's musical lineage; that of Chicago's original Acid House sound (c. 1986) - Frankie Knuckles, Phuture, Marshall Jefferson et al, alongside a rigorous experimental sound searching that taps into the cosmic musical lineage of pioneering artist Sun Ra whose Arkestra landed and was based in the city from 1946-61, and the equally pioneering work of The Art Ensemble of Chicago in the 1960s and 70s.'Outsider House Afro-Futurist Rhythmic Cubism', Moss's near indescribable sound plays testament to the notion that he is perhaps the last of the line of producers directly influenced by Ron Hardy at the Music Box, uniquely qualified to write a new chapter of Chicago's rich musical history.Red Notes is the prolific artists new revelatory and unique project' in his own words' homage to the Blue Note Jazz sound of Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock' fused together with the classic Chicago House and Acid sensibilities of Larry Heard, Armando, Adonis et al, into a newly imagined futuristic and barrier-less musical landscape. Featuring organic and synthetic electronic instrumentation, Hieroglyphic Being here fuses real-time live instrumentation and over-dubbed technologies to dramatic effect, as analog and electronic worlds collide.A1. Youth Brainwashing and The Extremist Cults2. The Melody Lingers3. The Seduction SyndromeB1. Awake and Energize2. Video JazzC1. The Red Notes (Original)D1. The Emotional Listener2. The Red Notebook3. The Tone Bather

In a sea of disposable cookie cutter music, HIEROGLYPHIC BEING continues to be a singular voice in the crowd. The 12 track album deftly maps the intersection of house, techno, and EBM, while maintaining the curiosity of free jazz & the DIY of punk.Tracklisting A1. The Sound of Something EndingA2. The Sutras of PatanjaliA3. The Veil & The Prophecy of The Spiritual ManB1. The Magic KeyB2. The All Is MindB3. Temple Wide OpenC1. Relentless (1991 Dub)C2. Blessings From The Arch Angel AaliyahC3. Everything Flows Out & InD1. I Am The Calling of MeD2. In The Pursuit of Madness - Hieroglyphic BeingD3. Held Together By Impulses of Desire