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Protostellar Core | E4XUDC 03:16
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Proactive Consideration Of The Possible | EX2UDC 03:22
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Still Unfolding | EXU3DC 06:30
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Luminous Sphere | EXUD1C 03:08

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WATCH THE VIDEO FOR "PROTOSTELLAR CORE | E4XUDC" on YouTube: tinyurl.com/24wfw4pf


In EXU3DC, Baltimore-based sound designer and electronic innovator User Friendly, and New York virtuoso guitarist-composer Álvaro Domene come together to craft and embody a sound-world that is both strikingly intricate and emotionally resonant.

This four-track release is more than just a collaboration—it’s a masterful confluence of digital precision, creativity, and organic expression, where synthesizers and electronic instruments intertwine with live guitar performance to create a listening experience that strikes as cutting-edge, visionary, cerebral and palpably human, through a dense and immersive journey that feels like much more than its modest length might suggest.

The EP opens with Protostellar Core | E4XUDC, where jagged, metal-inspired rhythms collide with a chaotic, glitch-heavy space before expanding into a vast, harmonic landscape in a brilliant shift in tone, demonstrating the seamless flow between tension and release that defines the record.

In Proactive Consideration Of The Possible | EX2UDC, Domene’s blistering guitar solos take center stage, cutting through dense, asymmetric beats and sampled metallic guitars. The track pulses with super intense energy, creating an exhilarating, disorienting ride as the seemingly chaotic rhythms build and deconstruct in telepathic synchronicity with Domene’s frantic guitar lines.

Still Unfolding | EXU3DC, the title track, is simply a haunting, emotional centerpiece. Waves of distorted guitar chords and synths breathe in crystalline unison and consensual opposition, creating a mysterious and yet uplifting atmosphere. The track’s flowing shifts in texture and tone evoke a sense of unfolding revelation, pulling us deeper into its emotive landscape. It's going to be rough, but we're going to make it.

Closing with Luminous Sphere | EXUD1C , Domene’s lyrical guitar melodies and virtuosic pirouettes slice again through User Friendly’s textural maelstrom with striking clarity, offering a human touch to the mechanical intricacies and utterly infectious drum machine rhythms ingeniously generated and manipulated by the electronic mastermind, integrating what seems like acoustic drum sounds with synthesized percussive events and beyond. The EP’s closer is beautifully understated, showcasing the perfect balance of melodic constructions with almost tactile and ever-shifting rhythmic textures.

At just four compositions, EXU3DC feels remarkably expansive, with each piece offering a vast wealth of mature ideas and sonic detail that invite repeated listening sessions, moving fluidly between and through different electronic and acoustic music traditions, glitch, ambient, avant-garde jazz, and even post-metal territories, resulting in a beautifully unpredictable dialogue, a back-and-forth where tension and release feel like the album’s heartbeat.

At Iluso, we cannot recommend this music enough, and are eager to hear what comes next from the duo.

Iluso Records, December 2024.

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released December 6, 2024

All music by Álvaro Domene and User Friendly

Electric guitar and live electronics: Álvaro Domene
Eurorack, Elektron Analog Rytm MK2, and computer: User Friendly

Mixed and Mastered by Domene at Singularity Studio, Kingston NY

Published by Dometone Music BMI and User Friendly BMI

Album cover by Ed Keller

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