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Gravity Season

by Leon Patriz

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1.
David Bowie in Hollywood 02:11
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2.
Summer Solstice 01:30
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3.
Stellar Day 01:38
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4.
Eddy Currents 01:22
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5.
Gravity 01:10
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6.
Autumnal Equinox 02:01
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7.
Carry On 02:43
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8.
Island Hopping 01:28
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9.
Winter Solstice 02:09
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10.
Planetary Perturbations 03:33
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11.
Conic Sections 01:30
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12.
Seasons 02:13
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13.
Vernal Equinox 01:48
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about

cassettes available here:
uraudiovisual.bandcamp.com/album/ur-042-gravity-season

Vancouver based Leon Patriz is the solo recording moniker of Enzio Verster. He is known for his songwriting and obscurantist stage presence in the experimental indie rock project Half Chinese (2006-2014). His new album “Gravity Season” is a 13 song cycle-loop that mixes pop songwriting with ambient drone and guitar/synth textures. This is his 2nd release with the Toronto based record label UR Audio-Visual.

The catalyst for the album was to record a soundtrack for an imaginary crime thriller, but during the writing process it took a new shape – into a more intuitive and disheveled form – much like one's own home garden when left unattended.

The album oscillates between instrumental reflections of seasonal and astronomical changes on the one hand, and on the other, songwriting that ruminates on uncertainty in the face of optimism. Both of these elements infuse into each other and create an atmosphere reminiscent of Fripp and Eno's Evening Star, yet filtered through a mid-fi aesthetic that embraces a 90s slacker pop ethos that venerates rather than disparages the pop of the 70s.

The essence of the album revolves around the interplay of shoe-gazing and star-gazing. The heart of this interplay seems haunted by Friedrich Nietzche's idea of the eternal recurrence. The disposition towards the recurrence seems complex and ambiguous. At the level of sonic sensation, there is a luminosity that pierces the gray clouds of existential let-downs through an embrace of the homely as a spiritual determination. Whether it is the emotional honest pop single “carry on” or the exploratory synth musings like “planetary perturbations”, the album can be appreciated best as a work of ambient method acting. .

Gravity Season was recorded and mixed at home after moving back to the neighborhood where he grew up, in east Vancouver. The recording was done sporadically over the last year, mostly while his kid was sleeping.

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released January 21, 2022

Mastered by D.T. at Analogue Sound
Lyrics for "Gravity" by B.C.
Artwork by B.C.
Album bio by E.V., B.C., and H.S.
All songs written, performed, and mixed by E.V.

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