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- ANENON
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- RALPH HEIDEL
ANENON
Saxophonist, producer and composer Brian Allen Simon explores darker hues, transposing waking and altered states under his studio veil Anenon. On the deeply evocative new album ‘Dream Temperature’, he shifts electronic processing to the foreground, introducing digitized wind instruments and unworldly atmospherics, not heard since his innovating mid-late 2010s output. A longtime Los Angeles resident, born and raised, Brian Allen Simon has expressively operated under the moniker Anenon, releasing the highly revered ‘Petrol’ (2016), ‘Tongue’ (2018) and the viscerally beautiful ‘Moons Melt Milk Light’ (2023), in a line of unwavering musical dialogues. While the penultimate album was a deliberate, reductive, entirely acoustic detour that was born out of a want to unplug, ‘Dream Temperature’ sees Brian primed with a newly discovered wind synthesizer as his central compositional tool, alongside acoustic piano and tenor saxophone. The entirety of the album’s electronics are triggered by Brian’s lungs, generating otherworldly synths modulated by expressive breath control, channelled through the laptop as the core processing chamber for added textural components and field recordings.
RALPH HEIDEL
Ralph Heidel's third studio album, "anyways. onto better things," is his most personal and intimate work to date, focusing on hope while not shying away from heaviness. With a wink, he bids farewell to a time when making music became a survival strategy. Heidel, who has established himself as a jazz prodigy, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and sought-after producer (including Apsilon, Casper, Finn Ronsdorf, Bazzazian), demonstrates on this album his unique ability to express emotional depth and complexity through tender, haunting melodies and a deeply sensitive production. His solo work is characterized by the interplay of analog and electronic sounds, featuring intimate piano themes and warm saxophone. The album was created in Heidel's studio at Funkhaus Berlin, surrounded by his instruments —alto and C saxophones, flute, an August Förster piano, and various analog synthesizers. This essential space for Heidel fostered an independent creative process over 1.5 years. The process and Funkhaus became a refuge for the composer, allowing him to turn into music what his heart and mind could not articulate.