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Great Times

by Panoram

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  • Streaming + Download

    Pre-order of Great Times. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    Purchasable with gift card
    releases May 17, 2024

      €9 EUR  or more

     

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    140 grams black vinyl.
    Full colour cover - printed inside and outside.
    Black poly-bag inner sleeve.

    Includes digital pre-order of Great Times. You get 2 tracks now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    shipping out on or around May 17, 2024
    Purchasable with gift card

      €22 EUR or more 

     

1.
The Shapes We Are
2.
Limbo 02:41
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3.
Pierre
4.
Cameos 04:41
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5.
Obsolete Child
6.
Born Today
7.
It's Me Being You
8.
The Parable
9.
Dishappening
10.
Mudding
11.
Brutal Meditation
12.
Smiles in a Row
13.
Peachflame
14.
Middle Class Love (Blood Tests)
15.
Veroin
16.
A Brick in Your Fantasy

about

Panoram makes soundtracks for daydreams gone sideways. Picture the scene: an afternoon nap with the television on, quietly, in the corner; snatches of conversation drift in through the open window. Wandering, half-formed thoughts take unexpected detours; before you know it, there’s a movie playing out against closed lids, the colors bright, the characters unfamiliar. Accidental rhythms, incidental melodies, imitations of life, messages in code.

Across 17 fragmentary, sketch-like tracks, Panoram carves a labyrinthine path in which nothing is what it seems: a fantasy world of breathy vox pads, faux guitar, detuned synths, bursts of flute and orchestral percussion, and even the occasional cheeky cartoon sample. It’s chillout music with a chilly edge, ambient with a darkly ironic undertone. (The briefest glance at your news outlet of choice should be enough to confirm that the title—Great Times—ought to be taken with a healthy dose of skepticism.)

Panoram has been making music under his principal alias for more than a decade now, releasing albums on labels like Firecracker, Running Back, and his own Wandering Eye. (He has also performed and recorded with Amen Dunes, and has co-production credits on Amen Dunes’ forthcoming Sub Pop album Death Jokes.) Panoram’s output has ranged widely, taking in abstract pop, classical composition, twisted takes on library music, and cyborg funk. One record of “bio-acoustic transmissions” came with a cannabis leaf pressed in clear wax; his 2021 album Pianosequenza Vol. 1 gathers his experiments on the Yamaha Disklavier. But Great Times offers the truest picture yet of a project that has never been easy to pin down.

Loath to overshare details about his personal life, Panoram instead lets the music do the talking, using his cryptic tracks to express the slipperiest sorts of ideas—the thoughts that take root where anxiety, distraction, and the most fleeting traces of grace commingle. Panoram’s approach flies in the face of contemporary ambient orthodoxy, with its emphasis on immersion and uplift. Great Times expresses something thornier, more difficult to translate, yet also more tantalizing to contend with. Its 17 tracks offer a chance to get lost—and an invitation to remain in the maze as long as you like.

credits

releases May 17, 2024

All tracks written & produced by Raffaele Martirani.
Recorded at 199X Studios except "Middle Class Love (Blood Tests)" recorded at Acme Smoked, Brooklyn, NY.
This record is dedicated to Rowan B. James.
Mastered by Pedro Pina.
Cover artwork by José Quintanar.
Designed by Basora.
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