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challenging, immersive, a restlessness presented with patience, transcriptions of robot dreams, music is the feeling of sound and i feel this
Favorite track: Another Portal.
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Brin is a strand of rhythmic audio expressionism for the online world through the lens of LA-based artist Colin Blanton. Homescreen Glow, the full-length debut on Leaving, is a collection of solo & collaborative explorations refined to a focused sound world of leafy-chimed blooming digital gardens, layered inner-clock zero grid beats, and buoyant cloud smears w. toasted edges.
Musical conversations shape-shifted during the making of Homescreen Glow, from passing samples via email, to live recording sessions at CalArts, sunny living rooms, & La Tierra de la Culebra in Highland Park LA. Collaborations across these works include Matthewdavid, Dustin Wong, Brian James Griffith, Raays, and Sick Whips - all mastered by M. Geddes Gengras.
Once the new world arrived with the pandemic, Homescreen’s organic beginnings required a format change to isolated completion lost in the glow of the computer screen.
credits
released November 13, 2020
written,recorded,mixed 2019-2020 at calarts,la tierra de la culebra, dublab and at home in los angeles by brin using sensory percussion, organelle m, phone, keyboards and monome norns
mastered by m geddes gengras <<
~additional personnel~
brian james griffith plays drones on homescreen and lost in the glow
sick whips plays extra keys and tapes on monarch
dustin wong plays guitar, 2 korg microsamplers, and loops on elastic garden
matthewdavid plays bells, bass, and extra processing on featherdrift + vaporous minor scale on glidewear
raays plays modular synth,extra processing,bass, and frequency guidance on another portal
artwork by francesco marrello
layout by brin
special thank you and gratitude to my collaborators
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a music garden; a garden that i can take anywhere, place it on my ears and enjoy its calming ambience. for nature-deprived folks (like me), it's awesome. wolftetsudo
supported by 372 fans who also own “Homescreen Glow”
This album is such a fun combination of styles and and immensely satisfying listen. Danceable with plenty of room to breathe and helps me focus too. Glad I got the cassette bc it sounds extra gooey. Can't wait to hear more from Xyla :) caramobazgo
supported by 372 fans who also own “Homescreen Glow”
I love this album! It helps me imagine the micro and macrocosms in the earth and in the soil and in space! a multi-scalar, multi sensory experience of ecosystems across time and space. Warm golden light, slow crystal growth over eons, geological forces and deep time, walking through woods, looking at plants and the smell of petrichor (the earthy scent produced when rain falls on dry soil) jen-du-chatsein