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Tracklist:
A1 Jeph Vanger - Fatale
A2 Jeph Vanger - Give Up
A3 Jeph Vanger - CA Study
B1 Jeph Vanger - Xtasis
B2 Jeph Vanger - Xtasis (Yraki's Rework)
B3 Jeph Vanger - Requiem For Clouds
Credits:
Written and produced by Jeph Vanger
Rework written & produced by Yraki
Mastering by Connor Dalton
Artwork: Marcel Bartosz
Cover Shot: Aliki Oikonomidou
Cover Shot Performer: Maria Vourou
inklingroom 2021
Includes unlimited streaming of Cyclothymia
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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inklingroom records present the EP of Jeph Vanger - Athens/London based award-winning sound designer, artist and electronic composer, who works in the fields of contemporary dance, theatre, film and art installations.
Jeph’s first release encapsulates years of experience in the field of composition for dance theatres, galleries and music for moving images, combined with a deep influence from UK dub and its contemporary mutations. Together, these elements have sparked the creation of intriguing and enigmatic pieces which invite the listeners on a personal journey through anxiety and euphoria.
The original five-track EP (plus rework by Yraki), brings temperament, no-style attachment, but a mix but forward-thinking controlled distortions geared towards intrusive post-dubstep, avant-garde bass sounds, combined by subtle electronics, ambient, drone and AI experiments. It’s a complex exercise in electroacoustic composition and a direct vision of a dystopian version of the dancefloor which itself sculpts into the artist's personal statement: “I would like to think of myself as a dance performer… interpreting different roles for each show… I intended to convey it with my worlds of sounds” Jeph Vanger.
In the opening track Xtasis, basslines slice through the tension creating an absolute sense of energy. Combined with subtle ambient touches the track offers the listener contrasting cyclothymic moods, with an emphasis on heavyweight, deconstructed dub-influenced club rhythms.
In the rework version of Xtasis, Yraki brings laser-sharp sound design with wicked vocal arrangements, along with bent highly melodic synths to create an ultra-modern, dancefloor slow-burner. The Italian born and London based producer manipulates his micro-sounds, creating an abstract world of melodies along with a unique blend of synthetic and organic sounds which successfully encapsulates the style and his vision of contemporary club music. The next track, CA Study, is a gentle atmospheric drone piece based on improvisation and a result of AI experiments, almost as the nurture of code made by Cellular Automata tries to forge a connection with the outside world. While on ‘Give Up’, the highly cinematic atmosphere with auto-tuned vocals and directness of message highlights the whole EP with its hypnotic tone, and progressing basslines.
A combination of different rhythms, heavily distorted bass and abrasive hi-hats in “Fatale” shifts back into Jeph's inspiration of dancefloor-oriented material, this time, raw and noisy.
Finally, over the course of nine minutes, the closing piece “Requiem for Clouds”, explores the electronics translated into acoustic lines. Simple cello together, with atmospheric ambient soundscapes and mysterious, sinister vocals create the haunting exploratory experience.
credits
released December 17, 2021
Written and produced by Jeph Vanger
Rework written & produced by Yraki
Mastering by Connor Dalton
Artwork: Marcel Bartosz
Cover Shot: Aliki Oikonomidou
Cover Shot Performer: Maria Vourou
Art direction: inklingroom
Jeph Vanger (b.1989 in Athens) is a sound artist working between Athens and London. He has worked in the fields of dance,
theatre, and art installation. His works often combine multi-channel sound systems, modular synthesizers and handmade sound sculptures, focusing on the physicality of sound in space as a moving and raw entity....more
My whole body agrees with the pace of this short but solid track list. A generous helping of acoustic rhythm samples ignited by breakbeats add extra attention to full range movement on the dancefloor. Not a beat wasted. cherub420
What a wild approach to vocal sampling, DnB & broken beat experimentation. I'm not only impressed but a little concerned for my center of gravity. cherub420
Argentinian audiovisual artist Amarhac plumbs a number of electronic subgenres for this dystopic EP reflecting on the effects of pollution. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 19, 2022
All the tracks are great but Stepper is the standout for me! pounding syncopated kicks, rolling handdrums and playful sample work, dancefloor destroyer. Jack G.