Through the Portal, by Pulse Emitter

Through the Portal

by Pulse Emitter

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Philip K. This album has musical structures analogous to architectural modes of an alternate human species and a geometry system similar to the constructs in my dreams. I restricted myself to not learning more about Pulse Emitter for months, not intentionally, because I only wanted to explore the themes of this album. I was a 4th party observing (via lucid astral projection) the alien Mediterranean society and their escheresque lifestyle, hesitant to move too quickly as if I'd break the portal projection. Favorite track: Virtual Reality Loincloth.

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	1.	Factories 02:52
	2.	Tree Frog 04:27
	3.	The Deserts of Hyperion 04:28
	4.	Alien Jungle Temples 04:35
	5.	Teal Forest Droplets 03:16
	6.	Idyllic Swamp 04:13
	7.	Heat Haze 04:10
	8.	Virtual Reality Loincloth 04:59

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There is a constant struggle between the organic and inorganic aspects of our personal nature—an effort aided by the drive to define our own physical boundaries through intangible experiences and ephemeral thoughts. But for Portland-based musician Daryl Groetsch—who records curiously reassuring and intricate synthesizer music as Pulse Emitter—this determination isn’t given credence by volume or density but by an emotional center around which everything else revolves. He peers deeply into our relationship with our environment and positions himself as a mediator of sorts between the fierce wilds of our instincts and the calming constancy of nature. He possesses a particular fascination with the hold that the environment and memory hold over people and discovers mesmerizing ways in which to link each influence to certain emotions.

Scattered across the tracks of his latest release, “Through the Portal,” Groetsch maintains an intimate connection with both his audience and their perceptions of his freewheeling rhythmic insight. Over the course of eight songs, he applies his new age prudence to determine whether individuals have an innate need for natural connections, or whether we’re simply a collection of pinging neurons in the service of a dispassionate body. He surmises that there could be a case made for either reality, but he’s certainly offering us evidence to support the former supposition. Imbued with glacial synth melodies, found sound maneuverings and a mischievous sense of imagination, “Through the Portal” finds Groetsch supplanting all doubts with one of the most beautiful and electronically pastoral releases you’re likely to hear this year.

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released December 12, 2016

Recorded July 2015 - March 2016 in Portland, Oregon

Instruments: Roland JV-2080, VirSyn Addictive, Ensoniq VFX-SD, Waldorf Blofeld, E-mu Morpheus, Yamaha PSS-560, and global acoustic instruments

Pulse Emitter is Daryl Groetsch

Art by Pia-Mélissa Laroche
piamelissalaroche.fr
piamelissalaroche@gmail.com

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