Aksumi - Fleeting Futures - LP

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The album ‘Fleeting Future’ received critical acclaim with The Guardian naming it their Contemporary Album of the Month whilst also gaining generous support from essential tastemakers including Gilles Peterson, Benji B and Mary Anne Hobbs all praising it for its hallucinatory, genre-defying blend of cosmic jazz, classical minimalism, fourth world influences, infused with electronic and percussive elements, standing it apart as an inventive and inspirational debut.

Akusmi is the project moniker of French-born, London based composer, multi-instrumentalist and producer Pascal Bideau, who signed to the new Tonal Union imprint for the release of his album ‘Fleeting Future.’  With its hallucinatory, genre-defying blend of minimalism, cosmic jazz and Fourth World influences, and in its quest for optimism in the face of unknown and limitless possibility. ‘Fleeting Future’ stands apart as an inventive and inspirational debut.
 
The creation of the album’s richly colourful and multi-layered sound world was originally inspired by Bideau’s journey to Indonesia, where he immersed himself in traditional Gamelan and gong music. Many of the themes, motifs and melodies on ‘Fleeting Future’ seed from the ‘Slendro’ scale, one of the essential tuning systems used in Gamelan. However it is not musical scales, but scales as in the size or extent of things that most fascinates Bideau, specifically he explains; “the compelling way things dramatically change when you shift from any given scale to another.”

Track 'Cogito’ featured in Apple TV's hit show ‘Pluribus’ (from the creator of Breaking Bad)

Tracklist: 1. Fleeting Future 2. Sarinbuana 3. Divine Moments of Truth 4. Neo Tokyo 5. Longing for Tomorrow 6. Cogito 7. Concrescence 8. Yurikamome