Artist: Portable
Title: Powers Of Ten
Label: Süd Electronic
Release Date: End of October 2007
Format: 2 x 12â€, CD & Digital
Cat No: Sud 011
Vinyl & CD Distribution: Mutualism Distribution & More Gmbh +
Partners
Digital Distribution: Boomkat, Juno & Kompakt
Website: http://www.sudelectronic.com
Feedback:
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After well-received albums on Background Records and Scape as
Portable,
and a 2006 long-player as Body Code on Ghostly International’s affiliated
label, Spectral Sound; Alan Abrahams returns to his Portable
guise for a brand new album on his very own Süd Electronic imprint.
It’s fitting that on his home label he’s let his imagination run wild,
producing his most expansive and musically-rich album to date.
The sublime ‘Powers Of Ten’ is the album that Abrahams has always
wanted to make, and sees him rise
to the challenge in fine style.
On ‘Powers Of Ten’, Abrahams further explores his African heritage
and absorbs new influences from Portugal, his current country of
residence. This
is partly achieved through collaboration – a thread which runs
through the album. On ‘Arrabida’, he works with classical Portuguese
guitarist ‘Mario Mpex’, on ‘Shifting Sunlight’ with Tor from
the brilliant Portuguese guitar duo, Dead Combo, and he is also
reunited with long-time collaborator Leo Fernandes,
the London-based bass player, on ‘Kuiper Belt’.
Abrahams further explores his vocal capabilities on the album, a
talent which was demonstrated impressively on the ‘Take Action’ EP
at the start of 2007,
also on Süd Electronic.
‘Powers Of Ten’ perfectly illustrates the dualistic nature of Abrahams
work, working comfortably in a home-listening context but also convincingly
on the dancefloor. The latter quality is especially evident
on opener ‘Albatross’, with its infectious vocal; on the Detroit-influenced
Afro-joint, ‘Locate’; the more overtly techy ‘Offline Mondays’
and the electrified ‘Trade Winds’.
There is a vast range of influences on display in ‘Powers Of Ten’,
but surely one of Abrahams’ greatest gifts is his ability to assimilate
these influences, creating a coherent, never clichéd piece of modern
electronic music, inimitably his own.
CD Tracklisting
1. Albatros
2. Arrabida
3. Offline Mondays
4. Shifting Sunlight
5. Take Action* (CD-only bonus track)
6. Locate
7. Trade Winds
8. Kuiper Belt
9. Migrate
*Note: the CD version of the album includes the bonus track ‘Take Action’, taken
from Sud 009.
Vinyl Tracklisting
1. Albatros
2. Arrabida
3. Offline Mondays
4. Shifting Sunlight
5. Locate
6. Migrate
7. Trade Winds
8. Kuiper Belt
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