Title: Rainworks Artist: Suso Saiz Label: Music from Memory Product Type: VINYL LP UPC: 783024551214 Genre: Electronic Release Date: 2017-09-08 Number of Discs: 1
Double vinyl LP pressing. Following last year's compilation of archival recordings by Suso Saiz titled Odisea, Music From Memory are thrilled to mark their 20th release to date with an album of new works by the Spanish electronic music pioneer. Recorded in Madrid between January and February 2016, this is Suso Saiz's first release of new music in nearly 10 years. Titled Rainworks this double LP release was originally part of a commission from a Canary Islands water company. The first ideas for the compositions developed from a documentary that Suso had seen suggesting the possibility of water molecules having their own 'memory'. Suso, his son Emil Saiz and pianist Raph Killhertz set out to explore this metaphysical process of cyclical movement through music in Rainworks. Developing from the original commissioned tracks into a much more elaborate project, the album's process became something of a mystical journey, drawing on aspects of minimalism and modernism. The music is also embedded in textured natural soundscapes and spoken word passages which were recorded and processed by Suso himself.
