Rival Consoles - Landscape from Memory : Listening | Envelop SF (7:30pm)

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Experience the new Rival Consoles album, Landscape from Memory, within pristine 32-speaker immersive sound at Envelop SF. Join us for this special listening event, co-produced by Erased Tapes, and mixed in 3D sound, to feel the signature melodies, lush textures, and pulsing bass of Rival Consoles like never before.

Landscape from Memory is out on July 4th worldwide. Pre-save and check out the new release at the links below!

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• Envelop SF is a pioneering immersive listening space that allows you to experience sound like never before.
• No vaccination or mask is required to attend which is aligned with SF health guidance.
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• You can find us easily. Envelop SF is within The Midway at 900 Marin St, SF, CA. Enter from the Michigan St side of the building through the patio.
• A cash bar for wine, beer, and tea is available. No outside drinks are allowed.
• No admittance into Envelop SF beyond 15 mins after start time. The main gate will be closed. Arriving late disrupts the listening. Please arrive before the event begins.
• Please avoid in's and out's during listening events to respect everyone's experience.
• Listening events are seated, dance parties are not. This event's seating map is below the description. We have a comfortable space waiting for you.
• Please no phones while listening, and please silence your ringer. We encourage you to take photos before and after the event.
• Please also be respectful of other people's experiences in the space during the event.
• All sales are final. There are no refunds or ticket exchanges.

7:30 pm General Admission | 7:00 PM Doors | 7:30 PM Start | 18+

LISTEN is a series of iconic album listenings in Envelop, allowing us to listen together within the music.

Rival Consoles

Rival Consoles has been concurrently in the foreground and background of electronic music since the late 00s; conjuring tense melancholia for Black Mirror soundtracks, playing in front of 10,000 dance fans at Drumsheds, selling out London’s Barbican Hall, and logging an expansive, wandering collection of synth-sculpted albums that explore a myriad different styles and aesthetics—but always with human emotion as their lodestar. Landscape from Memory, the ninth studio LP from the UK producer and musician born Ryan Lee West, finally blossomed following a frustrating fallow year away from the production desk.

For West, having spent the past decade producing and writing in a habitual way, falling out of love with creativity meant a slowing of the clock that makes him tick, a sense of being swallowed whole by some elementary force. However, the time out also made room for his most invigorating record yet.

Partly stitched together from a scrapbook of discarded audio snippets, Landscape from Memory demanded a degree of openness and vulnerability in its assembly. “There is a kind of strange beauty to it because it involves the past, present and future in a very strong way,” offers the Erased Tapes mainstay. He set to work massaging melodic kernels into full tracks, like the skippy, haunted club shuffle of memory-jogging lead single ‘Catherine’, which is dedicated to his partner. “It’s extremely open, just a naked melody on drums, so exposed as an idea… I think because she was so excited by it, I was like, ‘Oh, yeah, I'm excited too, actually, I just didn't realise,” he reflects.

These climatic productions are characterised by their propulsive quality, and driven by West’s own push to step outside his comfort zone, having found inspiration flowing from new and unfamiliar sources. After his self-built Hackney studio suddenly felt too controlled of an environment, West altered course, mapping out tracks away from his desk. To that end, Landscape from Memory is a travelogue of creativity on the move, a collection of postcards from everywhere, and an album defined by its restlessness.

Growing up, West would often mess around with the materials on his parents’ land in the small town of Syston outside of Leicester, hammering nails into wood and “sawing stuff,” which ignited a strong curiosity for making and materials from childhood. He soon found his way into music, starting on the guitar before teaching himself digital production and going on to study music technology at Leicester’s De Montfort University. He later became the first signee to the nascent London label Erased Tapes in 2007, establishing the label's shorthand for exploratory post-minimalism. IO, his debut album as Rival Consoles, came out in 2009, while his output has since evolved across nearly two decades of activity, from the critically acclaimed 2018 offering Persona to Landscape from Memory’s 2022 predecessor, Now Is.

As a multidisciplinary artist he has always been passionate about imagery and how it relates to and inspires music. His 2020 record Articulation was informed by drawings he made in his sketchbook. He has also been experimenting in various motion media, from programming particle animations in Max MSP to filming and editing daily video clips, and manipulating imagery in Touchdesigner or Blender, which would shape the visual counterpart in his live A/V shows since 2015.

As Rival Consoles, West’s calling card is his ability to channel hope, pain, sadness, and euphoria in one fell swoop, twisting the key in the lock of his internal world and telling stories without words. Crucially, Landscape from Memory is as much about zooming in on the details as it is about seeing past the horizon. Like a saturated photograph or an abstract painting daubed with bright splotches, Landscape from Memory is a riot of colour, an album blazing with a sound-shaper’s renewed love for his craft.

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Tracklist:

1. In Reverse2. Catherine3. Drum Song4. Soft Gradient Beckons5. Gaivotas6. Coda7. Known Shape8. Nocturne9. Jupiter10. In a Trance11. If Not Now12. 2 Forms13. Tape Loop14. Landscape from Memory

AlbumSingle – “Catherine”

Artwork by Catherine Ko Chen | Design by Robert Raths

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