Eluvium-(Whirring Marvels In) Consensus Reality-(TRR406)-24BIT-WEB-FLAC-2023-BABAS

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Eluvium-(Whirring Marvels In) Consensus Reality-(TRR406)-24BIT-WEB-FLAC-2023-BABAS
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 00:41:12 minutes | 394 MB | Genre: Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover

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Eluvium – (Whirring Marvels In) Consensus Reality (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Eluvium – (Whirring Marvels In) Consensus Reality (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:12 minutes | 402 MB | Genre: Modern Classical, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Temporary Residence Ltd.

(Whirring Marvels In) Consensus Reality is the new album by Eluvium – the renowned moniker of prolific modern composer, Matthew Robert Cooper. Taking initial inspirations from T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land and Richard Brautigan’s All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace, (Whirring Marvels) inherently deals both with humankind’s need for meaning, and the emergence of algorithms reflecting the feedback loops of humankind’s interactions with machines themselves. This complicated relationship that we have with technology, automations, and algorithms – and the influence they in turn have on shaping our image of the world – is the mechanized heart and soul of an album that almost instantly establishes itself as a peak in Eluvium’s inimitable catalog.

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Eluvium – Virga II (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Eluvium – Virga II (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:34 minutes | 368 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Temporary Residence Ltd.

At the top of 2020 – a year that began like any other but ended like none other – Matthew Robert Cooper’s Eluvium moniker unveiled a new ambient album series built around generative music and long-form loops. Intended as a minor, limited-edition stop-gap between proper albums, Virga I unexpectedly became a balm for many in a year of overwhelming anxiety and uncertainty. One year later, Eluvium follows with Virga II, an album made to help translate that flood of emotions as something other than anxiety and uncertainty. From the opening oceanic darkness of the aptly-named “Hallucination I” – a purposefully stoic, immovable piece designed to engage the listener’s subconscious in developing melodies through illusory repetition – through to the gaseous drift of the title track, Virga II rebuilds itself to reflect our ever-changing time and space. From buzz to bliss, it is a wondrous journey of reflection and restoration.

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Eluvium – Virga I (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Eluvium – Virga I (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 42:03 minutes | 327 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Temporary Residence Ltd.

Virga I is the first album in a new ambient music series by Eluvium. Matthew Cooper, the composer behind the Eluvium moniker, explains: “I had recently been playing around with various forms of generative music and long-format looping – as well as practicing patience interacting with musical systems and recordings – hesitantly dueting with them, trying to keep things minimal while also encouraging as much depth as possible. It was really just something fun to privately experiment with for personal gain. Over time I’d created a group of pieces and had them on various mixes that I would make for myself, but I hadn’t really given them much thought. Over the winter, my wife and I were subjected to an unexpected move from our home, into our tiny garage studio as we had some work done on the house. It was a little like an unexpected backyard camping trip but with two dogs and two people in a very small space, with the majority of our belongings in boxes on the driveway – all while weathering a snowstorm. It got a little weird in there, but also oddly comfortable. At some point, my evenings became very much about relaxing, stretching, and breathing to these pieces. They gradually fostered a very specific mood that I found intoxicating. The music seemed to enhance the soft orange glow in this small room in the dark of night, with the snow falling just outside. They also reminded me of some of my earliest works, those which were a bit less researched and considered. Perhaps they were simply more “felt” than anything. It occurred to me that other people might find that peculiar feeling inside these works in the same manner that I have, and that I might enjoy returning to working in this way again soon. I decided it might be nice to start a series inspired by this setup. A place for me to relax and experiment with emotions, and slow movements with various toys in my studio, in honor of strange deep feelings, gentle touches, and memories from a long time ago. I titled it Virga, after the drifting of rain we sometimes catch drooping on the horizon, disappearing before it reaches the ground.”

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Eluvium – Pianoworks (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Eluvium – Pianoworks (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:35:42 minutes | 739 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Temporary Residence Ltd.

Pianoworks is Eluvium’s first solo piano album since his sophomore album, An Accidental Memory In The Case Of Death (2004). Inspired by the quiet thoughts and solitary observations of children and the evolution/dissolution of that ephemeral, uncorrupted wonder of simple joy Pianoworks begins with a song about children’s piano lessons, and culminates with an etude driven by the struggle to hold onto innocence and imagination as adulthood settles in. The record’s dramatic simplicity in both execution and expression is with purpose: Cooper wants the music to be simple enough to inspire children and novices to play, and the concept simple enough to resonate regardless of age or experience. As any minimalist painter, poet, or architect can attest, it is oftentimes the profoundly simple art that proves to be the most time-consuming and torturous to produce. Pianoworks exemplifies this dichotomy, having been recorded, re-recorded, and re-re-recorded in the span of nearly a decade. Cooper exhausted every attempt to achieve a very specific, peculiar sound that is out of time a sound not entirely lost in an attic, but also one not easily found in a playlist. The process to achieve this elusive sound was painstaking, but it has yielded a rare kind of music that is as uncomplicated as it is uncompromised.

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Eluvium – For Thousands Of Miles (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Eluvium – For Thousands Of Miles (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 37:38 minutes | 358 MB | Genre: Electronic, Ambient
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Eluvium

A self-taught filmmaker, Mike’s first full-length film, For Thousands of Miles, was inspired by his own 4,200-mile cross-country bicycle trip.

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