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Body Complex

by Heathered Pearls

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YuX Phasey
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YuX Phasey this is one of those records that sticks around in memory, thoroughly reinvigorating the soul when listened to again, after time has passed. one of those records that stand apart from the rest in it's genre, having a personality of it's own.

one of my favorite records, becoming more and more interesting as time goes on. Favorite track: Perfume Catalogue.
Jesuscatface
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Jesuscatface The sounds, along with the mental images they evoke, I can only describe as fascinating and beautiful. A favorite of mine. Favorite track: Cast in Lemon & Sand.
Luke
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Luke Ethereal and contemplative techno - ambience that moves.
Crime Science
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Crime Science This is like Loyal 2.0 in 4/4 with kick/hat. Love U HP, save me a vinyl bb Favorite track: Warm Air Estate (ft. Outerbridge).
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about

For Jakub Alexander, the languages of music and visual art are permanently intertwined. And he's always been this way—from his birthplace in communist Poland, to growing up outside of Detroit, to his current home in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. "When music like Gas, early Dial Records, and Mille Plateaux releases in the 2000s popped up in my headphones," Alexander begins, "it was completely visual for me. Something clicked from collecting pages out of old Architectural Digest magazines and being completely overwhelmed with inspiration for my own visions of interior architecture." The concept carries on still, now as an integral part of Body Complex, his second album as Heathered Pearls. Body Complex represents a new form of Alexander's visually inspired sound creation, but just as it points to changes in direction for the ambient-inclined producer, it also revisits the past experiences that make his music possible.

Perhaps the most important era referenced in Body Complex is Alexander's mid-teens, when he was a 15-year-old DJ going to raves with the older kids. Sure, the parties themselves were influential, but it's the afterhours that resonate the strongest on Body Complex. "I remember those mornings better than the holidays during those years, the drives home from Detroit at 7AM were always stimulating. Everyone was so content, we'd usually listen to something deep and easy on the ears. This was a perfect time to let your mind wander." It was also an opportunity for him to discover the likes of Terrence Dixon and Lawrence, artists who would eventually offer encouragement to Heathered Pearls as he moved into a new beat-centric sound. "I respect [Terrence Dixon and Lawrence] because they can ride the same thin lines of what I love: electronic music that is heavily repetitive, melodic, and deep. They both can find this elegance in techno beyond the dark warehouse."

Body Complex doesn't necessarily aspire to recreate the music of Alexander's youth. But while taking inspiration from !K7's classic audio-visual mix series, X-Mix, and early-aughts techno compilations, Heathered Pearls has moved himself closer to the dancefloor. "Loyal was these indirect, huge, heavy, slow ocean waves off in the distance at night," he says of his beatless debut album, "and Body Complex is a stunningly bleak, uncharted landscape of man-made cement and artificial foliage." Take a track like the desaturated "Sunken Living Area", where flickering synths and chrome-plated drum patterns sketch out Alexander's conceptual backdrop. You can almost envision the sounds as columns and plateaus protruding from a dusk-lit valley. "Personal Kiosk", an exuberant ambient-techno highlight with The Sight Below (who also mixed and mastered Body Complex), might best represent everything Heathered Pearls brings to his second album: whorls of deep texture, abstract melodic drifts, elegiac beauty, and illusory dance music.

Of course, the artwork is another integral aspect of Body Complex, especially as it was conceived around an object designed by Alexander. "The shape came from wanting to create an imperfect sculpture that, from a distance, looks like a display piece," he shares, "but when you get closer and you have more time with it, you see its flaws." And that sort of ever-changing perspective reflects how the album itself can be heard differently in various contexts. Put on the Shigeto-featuring "Abandoned Mall Utopia" at home, and it's a softly pulsing current of astral dust; put it on in a DJ set, and the music becomes a heady balm for the dancefloor. "You're given this body and mind to build on, and everyone has their imperfections they don't love," Heathered Pearls explains in regards to the double meaning of his album title. Indeed, Body Complex is an elaborate expression of personal memories and visual metaphors as nuanced electronic music, and just like any fully realized body of work, it's best understood from more than one vantage point.

Mixed and mastered by Rafael Anton Irisarri at www.blackknollstudio.com

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released August 7, 2015

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Heathered Pearls Brooklyn, New York

Heathered Pearls is Polish-born, Michigan-raised, New York-based artist and producer.
The third Heathered Pearls full-length, Cast, returns to moodier loop formats joined by the distinctly new presence of the spoken word. The move mirrors the multitudes of its namesake: collaborators comprise a cast, healing in the bind of a cast, complex emotions and the shadows they cast. ... more

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