Black Origami is the second album by producer Indiana Jlin, first published for streaming on May 11, 2017 and in other format by Planet Mu on May 19, 2017. Produced in the year from 2015 until 2016, he performed collaborations with William Basinski, Holly Herndon, Fawkes, and Dope Saint Jude. The title Black Origami describes the structure of music: songs are a complex part that utilizes silence as much as sound, similar to how origami makes complex artwork based on plain paper. Two songs from previous Jlin extended dramas appear in Black Origami: "Nandi" from Free Fall (2015) and "Nonsense Rise" from Dark Lotus (2017).
Black Origami has been critically acclaimed at the time of its release; the reviewer highlighted the increase in Jlin ranges in sound and style, the various sounds of albums, percussion and rhythm, and the use of collaborators. Black Origami landed in the top ten of year-end lists by publications like Exclamation! , Rolling Stone , Spin >, Pitchfork , PopMatters and Chicago Tribune and is one of the hardest positions to make it into the top ten The Village Voice ' s Pazz & amp; Jop critics poll.
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Produksi
Jlin began working on the second album "about May-ish, June-ish of 2015" and completed it a year later. The first song made for it was "Nandi". The next track he's working on is what will be the Black Origami ' s title track, the 24-measuring end of the song title taking three days to complete. He explained that when he made the title song, "I thought I might go to something and dig deeper.It started developing into an album before I realized it." After completing the song, Jlin befriends the Indian dancer, Avril Stormy Unger. When he explains, "I happened to go to his yard one day and I saw his dance video, and I was like, Oh my God, this is it, the rhythm and his movements fit my rhythm and voice." As a result, Jlin created "Carbon 7" based on Unger dance. The next two songs to be completed are "Enigma" and "Hatshepsut", named after an Egyptian queen.
According to Jlin, people on Planet Mu called him "stupid because I'm not waiting for someone who should be on my second album - we have a difference in the work we're working on.All people think I should be waiting and total panic mode, so I have to work in around them and push past them to make decisions. "However, Black Origami still features collaborations with avant-garde producers such as Holly Herndon, William Basinski, Dope Saint Jude, and French artist Fawkes. "Holy Child" begins with Jin sending an email to the Baltic people's voice loop to William Basinski to turn him into "magic". Basinki first met Jlin unexpectedly during soundcheck in New York. The second last song performed for the album is a collaboration with Holly Herndon named "1%". Herndon previously worked with Jlin on "Expand", a song from his debut album Dark Energy (2015). Jlin produced the last song for the album in India.
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Composition
Like Call it! critic Daniel Sylvester summarizes Black Origami , "this is unpretentious and futuristic, complex and linear, dances and total mind."
With Black Origami , Jlin, in his words, wants to do "something different, something that challenges me to my core," and makes music "unlimited". He wants to make "complex" music like origami, hence the title. Thus, Black Origami involves "silent manipulation", like the "vacancy" of often-made origami paper, as much as "volatile beat patterns and other world-split sounds," The Fader . The album, as a result, is wider than previous Jlin records, to the point where "tracks like Enigma" crackling "or sparkling sparks" Carbon 7 "feels like it should be choreographed with fluid and ballet steps instead of fast motion feet and jukes, even if the rhythm stays at the same BPM as before, "writes Robert Ham's Consequences of Sound '.
As usual for Jlin's music, this album contains a chaotic and unpredictable rhythm as well as many details in sound design. In fact, drums and percussion in the original mix of albums sounded so aggressive that Planet Mu instructed the master engineer to muffle the sound. Black Origami is non-melodic and features drum sounds, bells, vocal trailers, whistles, and samples of world music percussion. It is "driven by its power of percussion, its embellishment, its radical development, its shaping of forms," ​​and "undercurrent flow," writes Rebecca Bengal.
Some reviewers noted the influence of multicultural albums in music, especially Eastern music. From marching-band-style drums ("Hatshepsut") to Bollywood percussion ("Kyanite") to American Hip-Hop drums ("Never Created, Never Destroyed"). A review by Ham noted Jlin's activities around the world that he did after Dark Energy gained popularity; he suggests that on Black Origami, he "absorbs [s] experience and influence and leads them to work with clarity and speed."
Jlin states that Black Origami is not a footwork album, and some publications have argued that he is right, a Spin magazine whose reasoned music is "too faceless" and "self-immersed" to be categorized as footwork. On the other hand, the Treble magazine claims the album "echoes and extends the reach" of the genre. AllMusic calls this album "fluid and smooth" for footwork records, also analyzes it "informed by ballet and contemporary dance in addition to a more club-oriented dance style." Author Andrew Nosnitsky writes that Black Origami is some genre and none of them at the same time is a collection of contradictions and rhythmic colliding worlds - the intensity of social music refracted through introverted thoughts, physically transformed into digital and back again, the past is told through the music of the future and vice versa - all make the rhythm case too unlimited, too powerful to be reduced to a utilitarian function. "
Ben Cardew's journalist invented Black Origami similar to the works of the 1990s Photek, Squarepusher, and Aphex Twin, where he took "the rhythmic intensity of drums and bass and squeeze [and] into new forms that interesting. " Spin also compares it with Aphex Twin's 1990s music because of" her determination to limit the horizontal possibilities of dance music. " While most tracks are very percussive-heavy, this album also sometimes turns into more ambient pieces like "Calcination". It also features some wizard house elements.
Release and promotion
Jlin announced the follow up of Dark Energy on April 15, 2016 through an interview with Line Noise Podcast. He declared it would "deflect the very left of the footwork", either going to be named Blackini: The Motherboard or Black Origami: Dark Lotus, and is planned to be published in March 2017. "Nandi" first appeared in Jlin's extended play Free Fall (2015) and was released as a single on November 4, 2015. "Rise Names" was previously on another Jlin EP titled Dark Lotus > and published as singles on January 23, 2017. Three more singles were released from Black Origami : "Challenges (Continued)", which aired via The Fader on May 2, 2017, the title song, which Mixmag is available alongside interviews on May 4, 2017, and "Holy Child". which was released on May 10, 2017.
On May 23, 2017, a video for "Carbon 7" was released. Directed by Joji Koyama, it involves a man played by dancer Corey Scott-Gilbert moving through a dark barn. NPR Music first distributed albums for streaming on May 11, 2017, before Planet Mu pulled them onto CDs, digital downloads and vinyl on May 19, 2017. When Jlin described the album cover, "I love elephants I Love Elephant Elephant is a thing which is most precious to me on this planet, so I asked my label when we designed the cover art [that] I wanted an elephant origami, and they were pretty sure I did not know how they did it.
Critical reception
Once released, Black Origami got critical acclaim, some reviewers called it a breakthrough note for Jlin and one of the best albums of 2017 (see Accolades section for more information). An observer of Spin respects him as "the future of progressive club music." It is bold, precise, cross-cultural and much smarter than the genre is reduced both outside (like rock) and inside (think home technology or even traditional footwork) of dance music. "
Ham called Black Origami , "of all pre-release accounts, a by-product of an artist finally seeing the world outside his own backyard." Gigsoup claims, "Although the record will no doubt be included in the year-end lists, its long-term value lies in its potential to dissolve arbitrary genre restraints and lift the same artist to higher levels." Cardew positively compares it with the Aphex Twin because of its possibility in analyzing it academically while also being able to dance with it. Sylvester writes that with this album, he "extends the scope [of his style] to create a beaming album with his only ambition and vision." He and a Dusted magazine critic praised the use of his collaborators, Sylvester reasoned that they gave each song "their own distinct personalities." Like Sylvester, Ammar Kalia from Clash magazine writes that LP "showcased artists who expanded the scope of production, while maintaining ears and venues for the genre's birthplace dance floor."
Cardew praised the diversity of percussion sounds in LP, which "ranges from marching bands to gongs to tablas." The "percussion master" is also respected in the Crack Magazine review, which uses the interaction between vocals and drums on "Enigma" and "unpleasant microtonal melodies and pure flight moments in the middle of a bottomless bottomless clump" in "Sons of God" as an example. Irish critic Jim Carroll claims that the album "will catch your breath", praising the "scope of voice" and "the skill Jlin uses to marshal his percussion power." August Brown from Los Angeles Times called the percussion "complicated and punitive, industrial and artful."
Black Origami received the label "Best New Music" from Pitchfork , which calls it "pure exercise in sound as power, music that has no special agenda other than just making itself felt." PopMatters critic Andrew Dorsett notes that the album is "not for everyone," but this fact contributes to quality because "Jlin is not interested in pleasing anyone, in particular, focusing on refining his techniques and following faithfully against influence and interest. "Dorsett also praised how" very disorganized, even disordered "rhythms were chaotic, describing the album as" masterstroke of sheer timing ". Resident Advisor respects it as a unique electronic album because both are "intimidating" while also "strong and distinctive".
Brody Kenny states, "this is not the job of someone who wants to cut corners to make" atmospheric "music by cutting and pasting old ideas, instead it is a sign of someone who builds unique authors with the most certainty high. "He highlights the use of stress, writing that the album" shifts the mood with enough subtlety to maintain the line through it but enough variation to prevent the album from losing your attention. " He also calls it different from most experimental albums, because "familiarity with it through some listening [does not do] anything to reduce the tension it creates.Instead of throwing the listener into a half-hearted mystical emptiness, Jlin instead makes a remarkable hyperrealitas." In a more diverse review, Spectrum Culture > Black Origami is "interesting" listening but criticizes it because "a lot of ideas and light on animal pleasures:" "Design sounds are often surprising, [...] But people can only do a lot of things just by drums, and even though the sound is composed in a deceptive way, nothing is very strange, and it does not rotate around the brain like an odd footwork record like the power of Foodman's Couldwork. "
Accolades
Semester end
Year end
In The Village Voice ' s Pazz & amp; Jop, a poll of the best album of the year selected by over 400 American music critics, Black Origami ranked number eleven with 345 points.
Track list
All tracks written by Jerrilynn Patton unless otherwise noted.
Sample credit
- "1%" example line "You will all die here" from the video game Resident Evil (2002).
Personnel
- Jlin/Jerrilynn Patton - composition, production
- Beau Thomas - master
- Robert J. Lang and Kevin Box - artwork
- Bill Stengel - photo
- Joe Shakespeare and Fabian Harb - sleeve
Release history
References
External links
- "Black Origami" on the official website of Planet Mu
- "Jlin" on the official website of Planet Mu
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