#Rrose

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RROSE // JOY OF THE WORM [PLEASE TOUCH, 2023]

[iamlisteningto]

Rrose x Polygonia's Dermatology

[smac30]

Secretion by Rrose TD_691

[radiophd]

rrose -- pleasure vessels

[dj-ki]

['a:kaiv] #4 //// Dj Ki : LBA K7 N°200 - A side / Strasbourg, 2018

MIXCLOUD

Playing : Rrose, Green Velvet, Perc, Truss, UR, Clouds, Ancient Methods,...

[purplealbumoftheday]

today's purple album of the day is: Sensation (Rrose Remix)/ Clear (Abdullah Rashim Remix) by Daniel Avery!

[harshr]

Lovely excursions of minimalism.

[scentoftoday]

Rrose - Ellis Brooklyn

Rrose by Ellis Brooklyn is a Floral fragrance for women. Rrose was launched in 2016. The nose behind this fragrance is Jérôme Epinette. Top notes are Sicilian Lemon, Cassis and Pear; middle notes are Rose Petals, Peony and Lotus; base notes are Musk, Cashmere Wood and Vanilla Orchid.

[disease]

RROSE // CURL [VANISHING POOLS EP, 2015]

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Cover artwork by Jon-Paul Villegas.

Screenshot 2021-11-14 at 15-30-10 Rrose ╪ Eaux ( rrose1921) •

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Rrose - Please Touch: Un Viaggio Elettronico Verso Nuove Dimensioni Sonore

Eaux presenta il secondo album solista di Rrose, "Please Touch", disponibile in vinile, CD e download digitale a partire da giugno 2023. Questo LP segue le tracce di "Hymn to Moisture" del 2019, in maniera sia sottile che straordinaria: "Please Touch" affina ulteriormente il suono tenso dell'artista, esplorando nuovi panorami estetici e avvolgendosi in un'indiscutibile sensualità giocosa. I nove brani dell'album si muovono con potere ondulatorio, spaziando tra tempi da un leggero 0 bpm a un rilassante 100, fino a un lancinante 140 e ritorno, con una ricca tavolozza di rumore scolpito e microtoni interconnessi. Il processo compositivo di Rrose, radicato nei suoi studi con pionieri della musica d'avanguardia della West Coast al Mills College, si basa su "seed" sonori che vengono fatti passare attraverso complesse reti di elaborazione audio correlate. Il risultato è un mondo in cui i cambiamenti di un elemento hanno implicazioni in cascata per altri elementi, creando una ricca interdipendenza che permette ai brani di respirare, crescere e mutare con un'organicità straordinaria. "Please Touch" affronta in egual misura l'aspetto percettivo e corporeo: sono suoni che si insinuano nel corpo, mostrando una tattilità che spinge, tira, piega e cede con una vibrante potenza. L'album alterna momenti di radicale techno a brani che riducono la percussione, lasciando che le texture dei sintetizzatori si distendano nel loro tempo e spazio. Il vibrante drone e il rollio del sub-bass di "Joy of the Worm" segnano il tono dell'intero disco, mentre "Rib Cage", "Spore" e "Spines" oscillano con solide fondamenta ritmiche. Utilizzando pochi elementi con tensione finemente calibrata, questi brani creano effetti sorprendenti e ruggenti. "Pleasure Vessels" rappresenta un raro momento di introspezione tranquilla nell'opera di Rrose, suggerendo un'atmosfera melodica che è praticamente inedita nei suoi lavori precedenti. Si illumina di una dolce luce all'alba prima di dissolversi in una frizzante marea. "The Illuminating Glass" abbassa il ritmo in una rilassante andatura, tra cinguettii scintillanti e ansimanti pesanti. "Feeding Time", "Disappear" e la conclusione dell'album, "Turning Blue", invece, omaggiano la psichedelia cerebrale dei predecessori di Rrose, con textures ipnotiche e in loop e lunghe e maestose note simili alle opere spettrali di James Tenney (il cui lavoro Rrose esegue regolarmente) e alle composizioni di ascolto profondo di Pauline Oliveros. Il titolo dell'album fa riferimento in modo giocoso alla qualità tattile della musica, suggerendo al contempo una sensualità proibita che è permessa solo all'interno di questo microcosmo. La frase è anche un altro omaggio a Marcel Duchamp, che intitolò così una mostra di arte surrealista nel 1947. "Please Touch" è un invito a sperimentare ed esplorare un viaggio elettronico verso nuove dimensioni sonore, un'avventura sensoriale che lascia senza fiato e con il desiderio di toccare l'inaccessibile. Se sei appassionato di musica elettronica, non lasciarti sfuggire questo incredibile viaggio sonoro firmato Rrose! Please Touch by Rrose Read the full article

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Rrose — Please Touch (Eaux)

Please Touch by Rrose

By now, Londoner-by-way-of-California Seth Horvitz is a known (but trusted) quantity. Right from the jump, their Rrose alias was an avenue to another, stranger realm: What might've read initially on early 12” singles and in sets opening for Sandwell District’s Silent Servant as a kind of gut-churning techno quickly revealed itself to be something less solid, more unsettling and unpredictable. There was the modular synth collaboration with Bob Ostertag; there was the composition for pianos with Charlemagne Palestine; there was the extended frequency experiment of James Tenney’s. All of it deliberately eschewed genre to the point that calling them anything other than a producer seemed ill-fitting. Please Touch follows 2019’s Hymn to Moisture in taking those lessons learned from their more avant experiments and incorporating them seamlessly into these productions. It’s a heady monolith, a work of impeccable sound design.

February’s Tulip Space, a series of “synth oddities,” and an accompanying 143-minute mix that featured artists including Aleksi Perälä, Kali Malone, Matrixxman and Robert Hood presaged what we’d be in for with Please Touch to some degree. Though obviously presented as a compilation foregrounding the synthesizers, Tulip Space had clearly identifiable rhythms, so the idea of abandoning some marriage of melody and percussion was never on the table for this one. The output, however, comes exactly as long-time listeners might expect right from the start of “Joy of the Worm”: queasily, like a synth phased right to the heart of your ear canal. It’s an experience rarely found even among the best producers.

There’s a depth to the production here that’s also hard to find in the contemporary music landscape. Rarely are you stuck with just two or three pieces for your ears to unlock; more often, it’s the microtonal touches at the fringes of your headphones that entice. Hear those scratches that start at the center of “Rib Cage’s” plodding thump before moving off, almost undetectably, to the edges to make way for the deeply submerged kicks and rattlesnake shakes that will take hold in the song’s second half. It’s emblematic of what makes Rrose so good, but it’s not alone: “Spore” circles you like a flush down the drain or a swarm of locusts. “Spines” does this, too, gradually bringing in what sounds like an unending Gregorian chanter at a low drone while unidentifiable alien transmissions gloam inscrutably and unpredictably. “Disappeared” is like the oddest night of crickets on your back porch you’ve ever heard. The deftness of design never ends.

It’s always like this. Something is always happening somewhere even when you think there isn’t, as on the ambient “Pleasure Vessels,” which is perhaps as close to relenting relaxation and even optimism as Rrose has ever come. It’s so startling in tone that its mere presence throws you off, puts you on edge. “Feeding Time” offers similar relief in its ambiance not long after, but while “Turning Blue” starts and ends that way — only just — the majority of its runtime is a discomfiting phasing that sticks with you as the final feeling far more than the actual warmth of the endnote.

Herein lies Rrose’s mastery of their art. You’re never on solid ground with these productions, but the immersive allure (much of their stuff runs north of seven minutes) even after more than a decade behind the anonym remains hard to resist. As Please Touch ably demonstrates, it also remains hard to duplicate.

Patrick Masterson

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rrose -- nest of queens

[thegardencharts]

July

Brigid Mae Power : Dream From The Deep Well

Bobby Lee : Endless Skyways

Yussef Dayes : Black Classical Music

Guided By Voices : Welshpool Frillies

Creep Show : Yawning Abyss

Anthony Naples : Orbs

Flaer : Preludes

Greg Foat & Gigi Masin : Dolphin

Teenage Fanclub : Nothing Lasts Forever

Rrose : Please Touch