Purple Television
[March 26 2014] : music
White Rain / Abstraxion featuring Chloé by Aurelie Vial
The London-based French musician and DJ Harold Boue, aka Abstraxion has already garnered accolades and spins – including heavy hitters such as Erol Alkan, Simian Mobile Disco, and James Holden. The debut LP release Break of Lights on HAKT Recordings reveals Abstraxion’s melancholic reveries and hybrid explorations. “The most important thing for me in this record was finding my own sounds and combinations to build a whole new world,” says the producer. “I wanted my album to be coherent and reflect what my project is about so that people could get into that timeless spaceship.”
Break of Lights, consequently, abounds with texturally rich, rapturous gems and thoughtful meditations on the passage of time. Album opener “White Rain,” featuring the whispered vocals of Parisian artist Chloe, winds plaintive guitar around modular synths and Abstraxion’s own ghostly vocalizations.
