Veröffentlicht
Mar 26, 2021
- Interdimensional hotel lobby music.
- "When I first moved to Los Angeles, one of my favorite things to do was to wander our deeply inhuman Downtown in the middle of the night," says Cameron Stallones, AKA Sun Araw, in the liner notes for Marc Riordan's forthcoming LP, Life Systems. "On the right foggy night, you could ride the glass elevators at the Bonaventure Hotel up out of our spacetime continuum into a silvered milky void... if you listened closely, you could hear 'Omega Building13' playing; faintly, but becoming more insistent as you accelerated away from all physical form."
OK, best press text of all time—but the tune in question lives up to the grandiosity. On the five-minute cut, Riordan, a Chicago-based pianist, percussionist and composer, plays both of his instruments with judicious restraint. On the drum kit, he mostly limits himself to deft tom rolls. For synths and piano, he crafts post-vaporwave themes that could waft through the iconic lobby of the aforementioned Bonaventure, a mix of public and corporate space that fascinated and unnerved Fredric Jameson. Underlying these sonic elements, an insistent guitar rhythm and high-pitched atmospheric noise keep us locked-in while levitating.
