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Label:Balmat
Cat-No:BALMAT12
Release-Date:27.09.2024
Configuration:LP
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Luke Sanger - 6am Beach Walk
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Luke Sanger - Flutter Env
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Luke Sanger - Solid Steps
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Luke Sanger - Poppers
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Luke Sanger - Beneath The Mausoleum
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Luke Sanger - Loop John B
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Luke Sanger - Morning Person
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Luke Sanger - Natural Light
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Luke Sanger - Open Sauce
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Luke Sanger - Terraform
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Luke Sanger - Living Algorithms
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Luke Sanger - Universal Vibrational Frequencies
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Luke Sanger - Vibraphone Home
Balmat began our journey in 2021 with the release of Luke Sanger’s Languid Gongue. Now, three years later, we turn an important corner as the Norfolk musician rejoins us with Dew Point Harmonics, the first repeat appearance on the label. Sanger’s new album feels like a natural extension of his inaugural record for Balmat: It’s a bewitching collection of esoteric synth sketches that slips unpredictably between consonant repetition, poignant melodies, and gnarled bursts of noise that catch in the ear like burrs in hiking socks.

That natural metaphor is perhaps not accidental. Despite having been composed on Sanger’s diverse array of hardware and self-written software, many of the tracks were first conceived while Sanger was hiking in a particularly wild and isolated section of the Norfolk coast. The field recording that opens the album, on “6am Beach Walk,” was taken on one of his many early-morning walks there, in which he and his dog might go for miles without seeing another soul. The album’s title was inspired by the overnight condensation covering the long marram grass in the dunes, glistening in the early light (and drenching everything coming in contact with it) before evaporating in the morning sun. Indeed, the concept of dew point—the temperature at which water vapor condenses into a liquid—feels like the perfect metaphor for Sanger’s music, in which foggy ambience is distilled into glistening quicksilver orbs, transient spheres of perfection eventually absorbed back into the atmosphere.

A shapeshifting collection of richly detailed and deeply expressive electronic miniatures, Dew Point Harmonics is both a testament to the mysteries of transformation and an invitation to get lost in the wilderness of your own imagination. More