Drift, by PERSONA LA AVE

Drift

by PERSONA LA AVE

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C-54 matte white cassette tapes w/ purple ink featuring 15 original tracks by Persona La Ave X Baraka with full color artwork sleeve.

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1.	N2 00:38	buy track
2.	The Lazerprince 03:30	buy track
3.	Finding Low 01:31	buy track
4.	Believe 05:06	buy track
5.	The Goddess 03:44	buy track
6.	In The Grand Hall 01:26	buy track
7.	Mann's Theme 04:11	buy track
8.	Bell Chimney 04:47	buy track
9.	Night Cap 01:17	buy track
10.	Traveler / Companion 05:44	buy track
11.	Crazy 4 Love 03:53	buy track
12.	POLY AMOR 00:39	buy track
13.	Slow Doubt 02:54	buy track
14.	MAZE 05:07	buy track
15.	Reunion 07:30	buy track

about

Drift is the sophomore full-length album of Persona La Ave X Baraka, a Knoxville producer-player duo churning out melodic funk music.

Having originally established himself at the intersection of vaporwave and synth funk as an early pioneer of what the Internet labeled ‘future funk,’ Persona La Ave (Dylan Dawkins) has spent years transitioning into a way of songwriting that sidesteps his earlier obsession with sampling the musical past, opening instead to the jazz instrumentalism of Baraka (Geoffrey Dean) in order to venerate the roots of ‘80s synth funk, jazz fusion, and house music by multitrack recording an album part by part, one slow syrupy sax solo at a time.

Drift is full of washing, mesmeric DX-7 bell melodies whose long tails form an icy ambience. The album also draws on all the sonic signifiers of an ‘80s pool party, searing memories of a neon futurism with sweltering synth bass stabs and incessant gridded 16th note 909 drum patterns. Temperatures range, but the consistent burn of Drift comes from the friction of the meeting of these two virtuosic musicians, both set on articulating their funk.

credits

released November 11, 2016

all songs written and recorded by Dylan Dawkins and Geoffrey Dean
produced and mastered by Dylan Dawkins
all sax parts written and performed by Chuck Mullican
additional guitar parts by Samuel Guetterman
field recordings by Dan Hood
artwork by Adam Deal and Josh Wolitsky

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PERSONA LA AVE Charleston, South Carolina

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Jul 27

Altered States

Greenville, SC

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