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WF 67 - Infinite Interiors

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LS - Are you using a particular or unique approach to this cassette, compared to what's come before?

SJB - Well obviously it’s a lot more personal than most other Polypores records. Or at least it came from a place that I’m less comfortable sharing with people. Mining a different seam, so to speak. I fought it at first, because I generally like to make music that’s ultimately uplifting, or at least leaves a fairly pleasant taste in the mouth. Whilst this isn’t totally depressing, there are darker elements that I wouldn’t have included in previous albums. But it turned out to be quite cathartic by the end, the process of finishing it. The second half is a bit more uplifting, and eventually there’s a resolution to it. It’s not like obviously so, but I think that sort of confusion works for it. It’s like anything in the subsconscious – it can be both beautiful and frightening.
Technique – wise it was my first use of the Soma Pipe, which is a very weird voice synthesizer (like a psychedelic space kazoo) that ended up on a couple of tracks. So technically it’s the first Polypores album to feature my own voice too. It was also my first album using the Make Noise DPO as a primary oscillator, so it’s got a sort of raw, dirty sound to it. The two albums I’d recorded previously (Hyperincandescent and Crystal Shop) was very clean and bright sounding. Most albums I record tend to be a sort of sonic opposite to the previous one and I think this is no exception. It’s also got a track called The Flux which is 19 minutes long and was recorded on the afternoon of Christmas Day, which was my 40th birthday. I thought I’d give myself a present, and that present was that I got to record a massive big drifty 19 minute track. I didn’t worry about length, I just sat there in a nice wine/food haze and made this massive soundscape, which I think really is the heart of the album.

(Courtesy of Luke Sanger / Flatland Frequencies: flatlandfrequencies.com/2022/07/28/premiere-polypores-infinite-interiors/ )

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released August 27, 2022

Written and performed by Stephen James Buckley December 2021 - January 2022
Using Eurorack modular synthesizer and Soma Pipe
Mastered by Antony Ryan
Cigarette Card / Outer Sleeve Image by Talal Khalid (@psychedelistan)
Thanks to Mat, Anthony, and Talal
Dedicated to Violet

Original Woodford Halse Livery - Nick Taylor
Layout and Additional Design - Mat Handley

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Polypores Preston, UK

Polypores (aka Stephen James Buckley) paints music with a modular synthesizer, drawing influence from ambient, new age, and experimental electronics. It soars, bubbles, crackles, and soothes, in ever-shifting, immersive cosmic landscapes. Dream environments and sonic sculptures.


Email: polyporeshq@gmail.com
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