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Rafael Anton Irisarri - A Fragile Geography

by Rafael Anton Irisarri

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1.	Displacement 04:16	buy track
2.	Reprisal 09:39	buy track
3.	Empire Systems 08:44	buy track
4.	Hiatus 02:38	buy track
5.	Persistence 07:03	buy track
6.	Secretly Wishing For Rain 08:11	buy track
7.	The Outer Circle 05:53

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Rafael Anton Irisarri’s A Fragile Geography is a record cast in a climate of unsteadiness and transition, reflecting upon the current state of everyday living.
Recorded over the past two years, the record bares the marks of difficult terrains – personal, political, social and cultural. It tips its hat to the complex and unpredictable dynamics of the contemporary world, correlating concerns both macro and micro. Compositionally the music mirrors the tensions of contemporary America, contrasting passages of great beauty and calm with harrowing waves of density and pressure.
A Fragile Geography also charts Rafael Anton Irisarri’s personal journey of transience and tumult. His entire studio, audio archives, and possessions were stolen while moving from Seattle to New York, forcing him to rebuild from ground zero. But such a tabula rasa moment also brought with it a chance for renewal, and for reductive experimentation. This experience birthed a range of fresh approaches and ideas, many of which became central to the aesthetic pillars of this record. Empire Systems, the album’s center piece, perfectly encapsulates this mood of flux: a rich and harmonically saturated monolith of sound, restless and constantly reaching outwards.
Like much of the album, it is considered, but not excessively laboured; open, but never unruly. A Fragile Geography is an exercise in the art of maximal minimalism.

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released October 23, 2015

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