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Like a time-lapse video of plants in bloom, ‘It Will Be Summer Soon’ is the sound of anticipation and growth, inspired by that season in Senegal when the entire country turns green in a week. Setting the tone for the long-player’s themes and sonic scenario is the optimism-driven, balmy beauty of ‘Possible Future’, where rich-toned drums throb and levitate in a stratospheric ether. They’re old and derelict now, but feel to me like monuments to that period, when the city was flooded with utopian ideas about its potential futures.” Wylie comments, “there are a handful of old cinemas in Dakar – these big modernist building dotted around the city, built just after independence. ‘Paradise Cinema’ is informed by notions of hauntology – a philosophical concept originating in the work of French philosopher Jacques Derrida – on possible futures that never came to pass, and how directions taken in the past can haunt the present.

I could hear this from my bed at night and it all blended together, in what felt like an early version of the record.”Ītmospherically ‘Paradise Cinema’ is vaporous and enigmatic, but also percussive existing in a paradoxical sound-space that’s amorphous, yet still purposeful, serene, but propulsive and aesthetically sharp. “I had a lot of nights in Dakar, when drums and chanting around the city would go on until 6am. The impressionistic and dream-like quality of ‘Paradise Cinema’ is a stunningly effective realisation of Wyllie’s experiences in Senegal: It was recorded in Dakar, Senegal, in collaboration with mbalax percussionists Khadim Mbaye (saba drums), Tons Sambe (tama drums) and recording engineer Mao Sidibé. Multi-instrumentalist Jack Wyllie (Portico Quartet/Szun Waves) presents his new project Paradise Cinema. (x 500 only)ĬD & LP editions printed on reverse board with pantone colours. Limited edition transparent green vinyl pressing.

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