{"product_id":"ben-lukas-boysen-mirage-lp","title":"Ben Lukas Boysen - Mirage LP","description":"\n\u003cp\u003eBerlin based composer and producer Ben Lukas Boysen returns with his most progressive and shape-shifting work to date, the long awaited \u003cem\u003eMirage\u003c\/em\u003e, on Erased Tapes. The third album to be penned under his own name proceeding his Hecq moniker, \u003cem\u003eMirage\u003c\/em\u003e follows 2013's \u003cem\u003eGravity\u003c\/em\u003e and the acclaimed 2016 full length \u003cem\u003eSpells\u003c\/em\u003e, a record as much admired by his peers as it was loved by fans that not only yielded remixes from Max Cooper and Tim Hecker, but also opened Jon Hopkins' \u003cem\u003eLate Night Tales\u003c\/em\u003e compilation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince the release of \u003cem\u003eSpells\u003c\/em\u003e, Ben continued to be in demand for his scoring abilities, collaborating with cellist and composer Sebastian Plano on the music for David O'Reilly's landmark innovative video game \u003cem\u003eEverything\u003c\/em\u003e. It was added to the long list for the Best Animated Short at the 90th Academy Awards, making it the first video game to qualify for an Oscar. In 2019 Ben contributed to the \u003cem\u003eBrainwaves\u003c\/em\u003e project alongside fellow Erased Tapes artists Michael Price and Högni Egilsson in collaboration with a team of scientists at Goldsmiths University, London — linking states of consciousness and music. He also scored the soundtrack to the DAFF award-winning German TV show \u003cem\u003eBeat\u003c\/em\u003e, the feature film \u003cem\u003eThe Collini Case\u003c\/em\u003e, and co-composed the music for the short film \u003cem\u003eManifesto\u003c\/em\u003e with Nils Frahm, starring Cate Blanchett.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs with \u003cem\u003eGravity\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSpells\u003c\/em\u003e, Ben has an array of musical guests adorning \u003cem\u003eMirage\u003c\/em\u003e, including long time collaborator, Berlin based cellist and composer Anne Müller as well as Australian saxophonist and composer Daniel Thorne — for whom Ben wrote parts specifically, having heard his 2019 solo debut \u003cem\u003eLines Of Sight\u003c\/em\u003e. Lead track Medela features both and takes the listener on a kaleidoscopic journey that slides with ease across sonic terrains. By the end it's difficult to tell what exactly was heard; \"I wanted to experiment with blending these recordings with 100% artificial elements, often to points where an instrument becomes an abstraction of what it was and the musicians' presence in the song is much more of an important DNA string in the song rather than an obvious layer.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMirage\u003c\/em\u003e, like its title suggests, feels like a sonic optical illusion — each piece containing sounds and techniques bent and processed to make them seem overexposed; the overly felt-y piano on \"Clarion,\" Daniel Thorne's saxophone on \"Medela,\" the single note voice of Lisa Morgenstern splitting into different chords on \"Empyrean.\" It is detectable but also easily missed, like the double piano on Kenotaph that could be perceived as one, but is actually two pianos in two different rooms, separate countries even — one is digital while the other is acoustic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile on \u003cem\u003eSpells\u003c\/em\u003e Ben made programmed pieces sound indistinguishable from human playing, with \u003cem\u003eMirage\u003c\/em\u003e he set out to do the opposite and make the human touch unrecognisable, creating something of a mystery or a mirage.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Erased Tapes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41303547674673,"sku":"drw1793065530545","price":17.03,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/8660\/8177\/files\/ben-lukas-boysen---mirage-lp_1.jpg?v=1793065538","url":"https:\/\/roofrackbar.shop\/products\/ben-lukas-boysen-mirage-lp","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}