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Opal
Artist
Batu
ReleaseProduct
Opal
Label
Timedance
Catalogue Number
TIMEDANCELP003
Release Date
April 29, 2022

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Almost a decade after the first Batu single, Bristolian producer and DJ turns to his own label Timedance for his first full length release. Born in 2020, Opal is the result of reflection in a time of upheaval and uncertainty. Traces of Batu’s past work can be found in sonic fossils across the record, carved and weathered until they reveal completely new forms. Like many jewels, opal is formed by pressure. Groundwater carrying silica forces its way through fissures in rocks, compacted by layers of sediment, and eventually solidifying into dazzling displays of mineral fire. It’s no wonder that Batu’s prismatic debut album takes the same name.

Scraping metal moves with instinctual force, opening portals to the past in ‘Former World’. It’s an intricate and intimate introduction to an album that relies heavily on sound design. Sounds are amorphous chunks of hewn rock, split open to reveal iridescent cores. They exist in the dark yet familiar world that Batu has created, full of dripping crystal stalactites, and the shifting of gravel as creatures pound the earth.

‘Convergence’ explores the negative space of these labyrinthine audio crevasses, where streams of consciousness merge as the track’s corrugated rhythms collapse on themselves. A thrillride of musical non sequiturs, ‘Atavism’ reveals many of the album’s themes. Vocals tap into primal energies, and synths have intensely natural conviction under Batu’s molecular level of detail. The thunk and twang of wooden arrows on ‘Solace’ meet serpentwithfeet’s melismatic delivery, and surging synths on ‘Squall’ shake the earth with tremendous might.

Opal is an aural excavation of electronic music, a celebration of the Earth’s geological heartbeat, and Batu performs his sonic metallurgy with breathtaking execution.

Digital Track List

  1. 1 Former World 0:58 Buy

    Former World

  2. 2 Mineral Veins 2:51 Buy

    Mineral Veins

  3. 3 Convergence 4:23 Buy

    Convergence

  4. 4 Even Here 3:28 Buy

    Even Here

  5. 5 Atavism 4:13 Buy

    Atavism

  6. 6 Emulsion Of Light 2:26 Buy

    Emulsion Of Light

  7. 7 Solace 2:44 Buy

    Solace

  8. 8 Squall 3:49 Buy

    Squall

  9. 9 Spectral Hearts 4:14 Buy

    Spectral Hearts

  10. 10 Eolith 2:37 Buy

    Eolith

  11. 11 Always There 4:19 Buy

    Always There

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