Dissolvi, by Steve Hauschildt

Dissolvi

by Steve Hauschildt

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frequency13 nice addition to any chilled electronica collection Favorite track: Saccade (ft. Julianna Barwick).

Machinnes Meditative, evocative, melodies dancing in your head. Very relaxing but focused music. Favorite track: Saccade (ft. Julianna Barwick).

Alasdair Duncan Maybe more direct and straight forwardly melodic than Strands. Syncope is a fantastic track. Favorite track: Syncope (ft. GABI).

Frant Dunlané Mr. Hauschildt's sound always delivers but the ethereal vocals on Saccade is a masterful arrangement. Visually and audibly, Dissolvi is a glimpse into the tech ambience of the future.

Anu Kirk Hauschildt moves in a more beat-driven direction than his last few albums. It is still beautiful and mysterious, like his other albums, but perhaps a bit more conventional, or more closely connected to more contemporary influences. Favorite track: Syncope (ft. GABI).

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1.	M Path 04:49	buy track
2.	Phantox 04:07	buy track
3.	Saccade (ft. Julianna Barwick) 04:09 video	buy track
4.	Alienself 07:00 video	buy track
5.	Aroid 05:32	buy track
6.	Syncope (ft. GABI) 05:24	buy track
7.	Lyngr 04:32	buy track
8.	Dissolvi 06:26	buy track

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In search of the sublime, contemporary electronic musician Steve Hauschildt has designed grids and panoramas of sound across multiple releases through the rise and dissolution of his former band, Emeralds, an American touchstone of 2000s home-recorded psychedelic noise music. Consistent with his solo work is Hauschildt’s ability to coil his craft in precise, varied, and distinctly physical forms. Gently spinning arpeggios converse with post-industrial decay. Sonic fibers sway like pendulums from static melancholy to motorik bliss. Dissolvi, the artist’s first full-length with Ghostly International, engages sublimation from an ontological perspective: by dissociating the self. Hauschildt steps out from the singular path, for the first time in a traditional studio, to compose and arrange contributions from friends. As a result, his most collaborative work to date extends a vast, vibrating framework in which to consider the state of being.

The album's title — a reference to cupio dissolvi, the Latin phrase meaning "I wish to be dissolved" — needn't be taken one-dimensionally or as purely solipsistic. It does, however, serve an apt reference. Physiological phenomena are of interest to Hauschildt. These back-of-mind ruminations find their way out. Songs are cerebral in orientation, but beyond explanation, the music is truly visceral. Involuntary eye movement inspires the serene, sanguine-nearing-suspicious "Saccade." Hauschildt feathers soft percussion beneath the echoed refrains of Los Angeles musician Julianna Barwick, together shaping a svelte suggestion of the anxieties brought about by modern-day surveillance; if everyone is being watched constantly, there is no individual, no self, only a broadly monitored and clumsily cataloged populous. The work of Chicago poet Carl Sandburg comes to mind: “I am the people—the mob—the crowd—the mass.” The individual dissolves into the taxonomic crowd.

Minimalist techno impulses provide a stylistic through-line for Dissolvi. Understated synth phrases and drum grooves take hold in selective moments, like synchronistic structures onto which nebulous mists, like the rapturous voice of Gabrielle Herbst aka GABI on "Syncope," cling to and cloud, producing a dazzling rift in consciousness. The 7-minute centerpiece "Alienself" reiterates this creative logic, burbling like an amorphous body of water on a low-gravity planet, on the verge of dissolving, but never fully dematerializing.

The album was constructed in Chicago (where Hauschildt now resides) and partially in New York. "Much of it was recorded in a windowless studio which removed elemental or seasonal references to time in the music," says Hauschildt. "The focus this time was on mixing the album and incorporating a broader set of instrumentation. I describe my compositional approach as being quasi-generative." Embracing new methods and philosophical curiosities, and in turn, expanding the range of his repertoire, Hauschildt proposes a fascinating and profoundly rich experience in listening, being, and deliquescing.

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released August 3, 2018

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Nonlin

Oct 2019
Dissolvi

Aug 2018
Strands

Oct 2016
Where All Is Fled

Sep 2015
S/H

Sep 2013
Sequitur

Nov 2012
Tragedy & Geometry

Jan 2011

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