The Pacific Visions of Martin Glass

by Martin Glass

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Thomas Saulnier The one record I'd take to a Polynesian island. Favorite track: Welcome to the Four Seasons.

Michael Feihstel Lovely selection of calm, relaxing, leftfield sketches.

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1.	Okinawa Fantasia 01:32	buy track
2.	Sound & Image 02:56	buy track
3.	Greetings from Under the Ocean 03:41	buy track
4.	Paradise Bubble 03:17	buy track
5.	Welcome to the Four Seasons 01:46	buy track
6.	Reach the Beach 02:31	buy track
7.	Acura Cruise 02:34	buy track
8.	Floating to Work (Postcard from Leimer) 04:00	buy track
9.	Glasshouse at Izu 02:44	buy track
10.	Fugue Pacific 02:29	buy track
11.	Nippon Pavilion 03:32	buy track

about

The future for magnetic bubble memories
- and there still is one - was more modest now.

Glass knew it. And knew he had to un-know it.
"Not productive, Mr. Glass."

Because for now, in green quiet, Martin was enjoying
the sharp minty spike of his cocktail.

All the while, a dragonfly - coloured in brilliant metal -
arced and spiralled around his recliner.

Pleasure's bubble and hum.

Hugging the horizon, the observation deck reveals
a panorama over the crystal bay.

Against the slow sky, the Pacific…

… and a wavy, patterned ice-cream.

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We're proud to present the first set of recordings from Martin Glass. Exiled in Taiwan working on a deal that never gets done, an American businessman falls under the hypnotic spell of the Pacific. His is an Asiatisch fever dream - seaside lovers, translucent virtual vocalists, glass-y '80s synthesisers and multinational muzak. It's an ode to Pacific bubble decadence, beamed from a lilo or a roof garden (or both)... all fizzing arpeggios, melancholy marimba symphonies and sunken yacht karaoke.

In terms of sonic references: forgotten '70s nippon pop, Sakomoto + Glass sweeping neo-classicism, Haruomi Hosono driftwood, Susumu Yokota floral pretty-ness... it's all there somewhere...?

'Pacific Visions' is a joint release with our friends Dramatic Records.

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'unmoored and blissfully drifting like clouds' - Pitchfork

'unbelievably gorgeous, I can't stop playing this' - Tom Ravenscroft, BBC 6Music

'wonderfully textural and dreamy soundscapes for future memories of summer places' - Nick Luscombe, BBC Radio 3 Late Junction

'a 4th world cyber-spa only accessible down some hidden hallway in vaporwave’s virtual plaza' - FACT

'assured to quell even the most assiduous of minds' - Crack Magazine

'amazing, I'm totally addicted to this record' - Throwing Shade, NTS Radio

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released September 4, 2017

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