Gravité – Self-Titled

RIYL: Neu!, Cluster, Ralf and Florian, Suzanne Ciani, J.D. Emmanuel, Terri Riley

The world has a way of tethering us down with its turmoil but there are keys to float free. It sometimes takes an equal and opposite reaction to snuff out the madness. Whether your destination is far out or deep within, you need a spark to set these moves in motion. Thankfully, Gravité are here to help. Their heavy vision sounds light the path and give weight to release.

"'Window Paine' is an honorable entry in the analog continuum due to Riley and Diko's knack for a dreamy melody. Classic synth tones float and interlock, the short track falling somewhere between Musik Von Harmonia and Chris & Cosey's most romantic, blissed-out material."

– Resident Advisor

For Gravité’s self-titled debut album on Empty Cellar Records, synthesizer voyagers Matthew Riley and Aaron Diko have plugged in to get the vibratory field humming into infinite vision mode.

"As much as we love the ambient direction many synth-driven artists have embraced lately — we’re still a sucker for songs that sound like a turbo-charged trip around the sun.

Matthew Riley and Aaron Diko pursue that path on their first proper Gravité LP, a self-titled space race led by the analog lines of nine different synths."

– self-titled

These eight tracks – performed on a collection of classic and reissued analog equipment: Juno 60, Prodigy, Mono/Poly, Minimoog, SH-01A, MS20, Minilogue, Volcakeys, TR-08 – are an introduction to a new creative collaboration.

"Floating like the fog that sits above the San Francisco sky that they live in, Gravité’s synth melodies are blissful and free. The pair jam on well-weathered machines for a warm and psychedelic sound that effortlessly floats from one song to the next. Gentle percussion helps provide some structure to these ambient and psychedelic synth jams that would feel right at home in a sci-fi TV show or late at night watching the waves gently roll up on the beach somewhere warm."

– Magnetic Mag

This is portal music for mortal metamorphosis, shaped and reshaped via endless improvisation and perhaps some psychedelics. So when the whirlwind world gets you blitzed out, it’s time to bliss out. Gravité will set you soaring.

Recorded by Matthew Riley, mixed and mastered by Mikey Young and featuring album art by Billy Werch

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