Visible Cloaks Return With New Album Paradessence

Seen Cloaks are again with their first full-length album in 9 years. The Portland-based ambient duo of Spencer Doran and Ryan Carlile will launch Paradessence on Might 22 by way of RVNG Intl. They’ve additionally shared a lead single, “Disque,” which options Movement Graphics enjoying artificial woodwinds. Take a look at a music video for that beneath.

We final heard from Seen Cloaks in 2019, after they shared serenitatem, a collaborative album with ambient artists Yoshio Ojima and Satsuki Shibano. Doran and Carlile launched their final solo LP, Reassemblage, in 2017, and adopted it up with a mini-LP, Lex, the identical yr. In 2019, Doran additionally curated the Grammy-nominated compilation Kankyō Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990.

Paradessence attracts its title from a portmanteau of “paradoxical” and “essence,” coined by creator Alex Shakar. Per Seen Cloaks, the phrase embodies the oppositional-but-coexisting ideas they’re making an attempt to discover with the brand new album. “As a substitute of making items that perform horizontally as environments, we wished to conceptualize them as residing materials altering in house, regularly in flux,” Doran shared in a press assertion.

Revisit Philip Sherburne’s 2017 profile Massive in Japan: Seen Cloaks and the Energy of Cultural Change.