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“Drifts” is the new album by Arp (Modern Obscure Music, 2025),
aka New York-based artist Alexis Georgopoulos (Smalltown Supersound,
RVNG Intl, Mexican Summer) and his first for Barcelona imprint Modern Obscure Music (Actress, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Eiko Ishibashi, Jim O'Rourke, Merzbow).

A collection of transfixing, storm-like compositions, “Drifts” traffics in
understated, tranquilized vapors — one part Ambient Classical, one part
Club-adjacent ambience. Pitched, reduced and re-sampled, the album's glowing abstractions — using piano, harp, strings & modular synthesizer — explore the emotional terrain between aftermath and renewal, blending
the unstructured immediacy of improvisation with the elegant sculpture
of composition.

Featuring contributions from Takuma Watanabe, Patrick Belaga (PAN),
and Marilu Donovan (LEYA) and artwork by sculptor John Chamberlain,
the album's cinematic suite of impressionistic, ambient works invite the
listener into a vast, mapless space of dreamlike non-linearity where
interior and exterior landscapes bristle with intimacy and electricity.

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“Best New Ambient” Bandcamp

“Best New Albums” NPR All Songs Considered

“RIYL — Ryuichi Sakamoto, Carsten Nicolai, Fennesz” Boomkat

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