ARP

Drifts is the new album by Arp aka New York-based artist Alexis Georgopoulos (RVNG Intl, Smalltown Supersound, Mexican Summer). It is his first release with Barcelona imprint Modern Obscure Music (Actress, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Eiko Ishibashi, Jim O'Rourke, Merzbow).

A collection of transfixing, storm-like compositions, “Drifts” traffics in understated, tranquilized vapors - one part Ambient Classical, one part Club-adjacent ambience. Pitched, reduced and re-sampled, the album's glowing abstractions - using piano, harp, strings & modular synthesizer - explore the emotional terrain between aftermath and renewal, blending the unstructured immediacy of improvisation with the elegant sculpture of composition.

Featuring contributions from Takuma Watanabe, Patrick Belaga (PAN), and Marilu Donovan (LEYA) and artwork by sculptor John Chamberlain, the album's cinematic suite of impressionistic, ambient works invite the listener into a vast, mapless space of dreamlike non-linearity where interior and exterior landscapes bristle with intimacy and electricity.