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Elemental Themes out Oct. 9 on Stones Throw
VIDEO: Chrome Canyon - "Branches" -
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Still from "Branches" video
Chrome Canyon has made a music video for his new song
"Branches," which you can view over atXLR8R. Morgan Z aka Chrome Canyon shot the
Koyaanisqatsi-inspired video on the rooftop of his studio in Greenpoint. He
also recently put together a very short mix of each of the 12-tracks on his
upcoming Elemental Themes album which you can listen to here. The record will be released by Stones Throw on
October 9, 2012.
More about Elemental Themes:
The future never came. The year 2000 arrived, a new
millennium was born, and yet we were not greeted with hover-boards. Our
computers did not sprout legs and profess their love to us. Enter Chrome
Canyon. If we can indeed recover yesterday's fantasy of what tomorrow would
(should) be, then Chrome Canyon is the temporal technician for the job. The
solo project of New York artist Morgan Z, Chrome Canyon creates analog
synth-powered epics that move between eras past and ages imagined to create
the perfect score for an alternate now.
Morgan's formative music memories were beamed in through
the living room TV set - Vangelis'Blade Runner score, Wendy
Carlos via Tron, Giorgio Moroder's work on Cat People.
He spent his youth on the outskirts of southern California's San Fernando
Valley. His folks had him on piano by 6. At 16, he moved into that same
living room and gave his bedroom over to housing his collected gear.
Somewhere between the avant-garde compositions he wrote
while studying jazz at NYC's New School, a college job selling keyboards at
Sam Ash in Times Square, and the satirical sex-funk band he founded on the
side, his destiny was taking shape.
For three years, Morgan played in the glammy electro
outfit Apes & Androids, but when that ended, he retreated to his private
Brooklyn studio where he began to amass analog synthesizers at an obsessive
rate.
Then the remixes began pouring forth. Phoenix, Passion
Pit, and a commissioned remix for Foster the People - their hits reemerging
with a healthy dusting of metallic sheen, glowing neon pink and alarm clock
green. Then came deranged disco edits of soul-jazz master George Benson and
synthpop pioneers Yellow Magic Orchestra, Chrome Canyon's profile growing as
Morgan further blurred past, present and future.
Now, Stones Throw is set to release Chrome Canyon's debut
album, Elemental Themes on Oct. 9. The inaugural set is
blessed with solid circuitry and an organic core: not only those analog
synths, but live drums, bass, guitar and Theremin run through hand-built
compressors, composed and arranged into a living, breathing whole. Elemental
Themes was one of the last works mastered by Nilesh Patel, the
engineer behind classic albums by the likes of Air, Bjork, and Daft Punk. The
end result is something wondrously both in and out of time, and a cinematic
experience without the cinema.
CHROME CANYON
10/06 Los Angeles, CA - Eagle Rock Music Fest
 Chrome Canyon Elemental Themes (Stones Throw) Street Date: Oct. 9, 2012 Track List: 01 Beginnings 02 Pluze 03 Legends 04 Branches 05 Elemental Themes 06 Cave of Light 07 Generations 08 Chasing The Dead 09 Sacred Mountain 10 Memories of a Scientist 11 Signs from an Old World 12 Carfire on the Highway |
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