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Six Changes

by Architek Percussion

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1.
When Will I Realize? 04:50
2.
Perspective 04:32
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3.
When Change is Bad 05:44
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Your Definition of Home Depends on the Constants in Your Life 04:42
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Sitting the Next Few Plays Out 05:16
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6.
Dark Horse Fan 07:37
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Six Changes is a connected set of six instrumentals composed by Ben Duinker and Architek Percussion.

The colour palette on Six Changes is bold, warm, and saturated and stylistically, the album channels pulsating minimalism through the sophisticated extroversion found in experimental rock and beat-based electronica of various kinds. Asymmetrical rhythms ricochet off of and drift away from one another while glowing mallet-instrument figures braid together. Long, bowed tones offer their distinctive choral shimmer and dissolving into strident synthetic hues. Robust drum kit often provides a firm and precise foundation but rather than imposing rigidity it offers a base onto which the ensemble lay ever-shifting polyrhythmic surfaces. “Perspective” unfurls a stack of multiple simultaneous temporalities, all of which eventually converge at the piece's climax. Anchored with a stark, insistent groove, the various constituent parts of “Your Definition of Home is Dependent on the Constants in Your Life” seem to slide in and out of focus with one another, only to convene at dramatic tonal shifts in several key moments. On the sparkling “Sitting The Next Few Plays Out,” Duinker takes rhythms that he extracted from an MRI machine and embeds them into a web of different pulses. The closing track “Dark Horse Fan” features similar use of an ostinato Duinker transcribed from a busted café ceiling fan. Throughout and around this iterating figure, the group weaves a radiant bed of synth and gently percolating vibraphone. Each movement of Six Changes manages to exude the propulsive candour and physicality of rock, all the while offering a deliciously elaborate rhythmic profile and subtle ensemble shadings.

- Nick Storring

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released June 3, 2022

All songs composed by Ben Duinker and Architek Percussion and performed by Architek Percussion:

Noam Bierstone: vibraphone, percussion, synth
Ben Duinker: synth, crotales, percussion, piano
Ben Reimer: drums, percussion, glockenspiel, drum machine
Alessandro Valiante: vibraphone, percussion, synth

Recorded at Studio La Traque, Montreal, November 2020
Recorded by by John Castillo
Produced by Architek Percussion
Assistant Production by Alexander Haupt
Mixed and Mastered by Denis Martin
Art Design and Layout by Lucas c Pauls, Mart Design Company

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Architek Percussion Montreal, Québec

The Montreal-based quartet ARCHITEK PERCUSSION creates musical experiences that entertain, captivate, and challenge audiences, often simultaneously. Architek’s diverse repertoire is presented in a manner inspired by the quartet’s belief that given proper context, every audience member should feel welcomed and included through the performance of contemporary art music. ... more

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