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- link: artist/15769
  names:
    en: Chris Porter
barcode: '194152722351'
catalog: N/A
categories:
- Artist Discography
category: Artist Discography
classification: Original Work
composers:
- link: artist/15769
  names:
    en: Chris Porter
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discs:
- disc_length: '48:10'
  name: ''
  tracks:
  - names:
      English: Salve
    track_length: '5:49'
  - names:
      English: f/1.4
    track_length: '4:39'
  - names:
      English: RigoR moRtis
    track_length: '2:56'
  - names:
      English: fact(s)
    track_length: '2:07'
  - names:
      English: Air Hoar
    track_length: '5:46'
  - names:
      English: R@_bit
    track_length: '3:18'
  - names:
      English: JUD3
    track_length: '5:28'
  - names:
      English: After-Dinner Mints
    track_length: '2:14'
  - names:
      English: Brambles
    track_length: '5:50'
  - names:
      English: turm.oil
    track_length: '10:03'
distributor: &id001
  link: org/3387
  names:
    en: CD Baby
    ja: CD Baby
    ja-latn: CD Baby
  role: distributor
link: album/106225
lyricists: []
media_format: Digital
meta:
  added_date: 2020-11-13T03:29
  edited_date: 2022-09-16T02:38
  fetched_date: 2026-06-07T04:17
  ttl: 86400
  visitors: 1020
name: R@_bit
names:
  en: R@_bit
  ja: R@_bit - An Album By Chris Porter
  ja-latn: R@_bit
notes: 'Liner Notes – Written by Michael Garrett Steele

  If music is about a journey—and it usually is—there are all kinds of ways to create
  that sense of journey. At its heart, music is about tension and release. Traditionally,
  that comes from harmonies that weave a pattern of subtle discord and resolution.
  But it can come from other places, too. An increase in complexity over time. The
  changing of a sound''s color as a note is passed from one instrument to the next.

  In R@_bit, that journey often comes by venturing out into an increasingly jagged
  sea of layered percussion and ominous drones, and then back to the haven of a warm,
  comforting melody.

  For those familiar with Porter''s earlier work, the textures and sounds here will
  be at once familiar and shocking. The JRPG inspirations that drove work like Leaving
  Home and Bound Together are still very much present. But there are other forces
  at play here, as well. Dense, intricate rhythms, flourishes of hand percussion,
  jangly New Wave guitar, and stray bits of chiptune join the familiar strings that
  form the emotional core of those earlier works.

  The album opener, “Salve”, is a perfect illustration. A jagged, edgy beat is infused
  with a tender, homey string melody that''s just percussive enough to blend in with
  the rest of what''s happening. And yet its presence immediately creates a sense
  of warmth, or home, or even longing. The overall effect is like a marriage of JRPG
  soundtrack and 90s industrial rock. And in that strange juxtaposition, something
  magical happens that isn''t quite expected, but which feels absolutely sublime when
  you hear it.

  When an artist crafts something that brings all of their loves and influences together,
  that''s when you get their most personal work. It''s when you see them at their
  most unique. It''s when you get something that only that person could have made.
  The sheer breadth of things happening here, and the mastery with which they''re
  interwoven, give you the sense that that''s exactly what this album is.

  R@_bit is playful, and melancholy, and contemplative, and often menacing. It''s
  a journey away from and towards and back away from comfort. And for all of the styles
  and sounds that it incorporates, and for all of the places it goes emotionally and
  sonically, the ride feels deliberate, and complete. This is a story. And it''s the
  sound of a composer finding their voice and using it to incredible effect.

  credits

  Composed, mixed, and mastered by Chris Porter

  Album art by Jonathan Griffith

  Liner notes by Michael Garrett Steele

  Special Thanks to Craig Manley'
organizations:
- &id002
  names:
    en: Chris Porter
    ja: Chris Porter
    ja-latn: Chris Porter
  role: publisher
- *id001
performers: []
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publish_format: Commercial
publisher: *id002
related: []
release_date: '2020-11-15'
release_events: []
release_price:
  currency: USD
  price: 7.0
reprints: []
stores:
- link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B08P2LBNJG/
  name: Amazon
- link: http://music.apple.com/us/album/1541768652
  name: Apple Music
- link: http://chrisportermusic.bandcamp.com/album/r-bit
  name: BandCamp
- link: http://www.deezer.com/album/188487552?utm_source=deezer&utm_content=album-188487552&utm_term=0_1606181855&utm_medium=web
  name: Deezer
- link: http://play.spotify.com/album/1tW2jc3f3r2zO1SQeuckLm
  name: Spotify
- link: http://youtu.be/XMx5yCAxD5Y
  name: YouTube
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votes: 0
