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The Analog Vault // Essential Listening
Berlin-based producer Philipp Priebe treated his 2022 album Apparent Calm Palms as a narrative of anticipation and release. Issued on the Mainz/Hamburg label Feuilleton, it flows through hazy deep house and dub-techno gradients, punctuated by ambient interludes. Desires and Interborough set the tone with muted propulsion, Quiet Decay and Chimera thicken the fog, while Slalom and Unfold glide forward with unhurried momentum. Behind Their House and the title track act as reflective pauses. Mastered by Sven Weisemann with lacquer cut by Stefan Betke, the album balances club utility with headphone detail, sketching travel, longing and release with understated craft. The Analog Vault
Stlar label boss Philipp Priebe delivers his new album ‘Apparent Calm Palms’ this October, joining the roster of Mainz/Hamburg, Germany’s Feuilleton. Berlin-based artist Philipp Priebe has been steadily making his mark on the contemporary deep hazy house and leftfield electronica scene over the past few years with a series of releases on his own Stlar imprint. Here though we see him deliver his second album following his debut LP ‘The Being Of The Beautiful’ released on Japan’s IL Y A Records back in 2014. Feuilleton is the brainchild of Chris Gruber (Fossar) and Tim Eder and since 2018 has unveiled material from the duo themselves, RR (Ren Raabe), Snad, Gari Romalis, Melina, Jakob Seidensticker and more.
Throughout the ‘Apparent Calm Palms’ LP Priebe delivers a concoction of styles and sounds cohesi-vely fused together to form the bigger concept which is he tells us is “an album about small towns and villages and the needs and desires that brings one night out in clubs. The transport/travel, the preparty, all the things that you had to do, when you are not directly living in the big party places, but still want to have a decent night out, away from your usual suspects”. Throughout the ten-track LP Philipp delivers ethereal deep house with opening track ‘Desires’, the succeeding ‘Interborough’ and ‘Chimera’, murky dub house leaning cuts like ‘Quiet Decay’, ‘Slalom’, ‘Unfold’ and ‘Conclusions’ while ‘Transfiguration’ showcases a more classic Chicago House influence. Title-track ‘Apparent Calm Palms’ and the interlude ‘Behind Their House’ then see Priebe offer a foray into textural ambient sounds, once again showcasing his unique ability to craft raw, understated and emotion fuelled material across a variety of genres. (via Label)
Label: Feuilleton
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Released: 2022
Genre: Electronic
Style: Deep House, Dub Techno, Deep Techno
File under: TAV Essential Listening
File under: Electronic // House / Electro / Techno
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