Indopan

Indopan

In Opulence

100% Silk

Irish independent Andrew Morrison (The Cyclist, Buz Ludzha, etc.) returns as Indopan with a 70-minute suite of jazzy kinetics, lysergic breaks, and dusted swing: In Opulence. Inspired by a recent haul of modified rig acquisitions, including a Wurlitzer 206A, Korg Polysix, and analog Soviet drum brain called the Marsh UDS, the album skews his signature “tape throb” sound through a warmer, warbly lens, streaked with grit and sepia haze. Morrison mentions themes of unattainable desire and hidden fracture as touchstones (“the breaking at the seams of a smile”), which are especially apparent in his two collaborations with vocalist Elaine Howley (“Shore Ellipsis” and “Antigreed”). But, throughout, the songs churn, burn, and billow with elusive movement, sweeping through rolling hills and misty city streets, in the shadow of uneasy futures.

Indopan

Yupana

100% Silk

Named for a banned 60’s psychoactive stimulant, Indopan is the splinter entity of Irish producer Andrew Morrison, aka “tape throb” godfather The Cyclist. Its sound runs distinct but parallel, a fusion of blasted house and ghosted soul, smeared with dub, breaks, and redline grit. Yupana collects nine new tracks for a 50-minute trip through outer limits and altered states, cutting keys at the doors of perception. Smoky horns, snaky bass, smeared organ, and deep torch laments spiral through kinetic, kaleidoscopic strains of dizzy swing, dusty jack, and jittery acid. Alternately weightless and weary, tense and unhinged, Morrison’s mastery of mood, rhythm, and restraint hits a supreme peak here. This is music of liquid nights, chemical bloodstreams, and ancient sorrows, ebbing and flowing from lost roots to fractured futures, unbowed and unknowable.