ARTIST...: Canaan Balsam TITLE....: Cruise Utopia YEAR.....: 2020 LABEL....: Passat Continu CAT.NO...: PC005 GENRE....: Electronic TIME.....: 51:47 SIZE.....: 91.33 MB QUALITY..: 246kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo ENCODER..: LAME SOURCE...: WEB RLS.DATE.: 2020/12/18 WEBSITE..: https://passatcontinu.bandcamp.com/album/cruise-utopia TRACKLIST 01) (04:27) C.C.C.C. 02) (04:59) Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears 03) (07:44) A Nation Of Rats, Ruled By Wolves, Owned By Pigs 04) (07:36) One Rat Short Of A Plague 05) (03:40) I Feel Like A Cigarette Burn 06) (07:15) Life Is A Horizontal Fall 07) (04:17) *Attention, Potion Magique! 08) (05:31) Life's True Face Is The Skull 09) (02:37) The Rats Have Gone, The Bottles Drunk, The Ship Has Sunk 10) (03:41) The Tide Rolls Out And Only The Rats Remain Canaan Balsam is an electronic composer and musician based in Edinburgh. He uses field recordings, found sounds, hardware and a range of software to create immersive soundscapes. His work explores the dead space between ambient and new age music; the liminal zone between the harshness of industrial and the beatific serenity of devotional music. Responding to the context where ever-expanding modes of communication seem only to blur the line between connectivity and solitude, Canaan often returns to the theme of loneliness in his work - how it can grow and metastasize, until it becomes incommunicable, resistant to empathy; an alien host overtaking the body. Cruise Utopia was recorded over the last 3 years and it's Canaan's first solo work after leaving the industrial outfit NAKED. -