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Until the Quiet Comes
Until the Quiet Comes is the fourth studio album by American electronic music producer Flying Lotus, released on September 26, 2012 by Warp Records. Flying Lotus was inspired to create the album by psychedelic music, African percussion, and concepts of the human subconscious and dream world. He recorded for two years at his home in Los Angeles, experimenting with different mixing techniques and dynamics while primarily using an Ableton Live sequencer along with other instruments and software. The producer was accompanied on certain songs by guest vocalists, including Erykah Badu, Thom Yorke, and Laura Darlington. The album also continued his creative partnership with bassist Thundercat, who had appeared on Flying Lotus' 2010 record Cosmogramma.
An electronic jazz album, Until the Quiet Comes features free jazz elements, varying musical tones, contrasting scales, and shifts in rhythmic feel. Its songs are sequenced together and characterized by what music journalists noted to be ghostly vocal production, irregular drum beats, pulsating percussive textures, trembling basslines, trilled synthesizers, and fluctuating samples. The album has a journey-like concept and dreamy musical narrative, which Flying Lotus conceived while imagining himself in the process of astral projection. He later said the album could be interpreted uniquely by listeners; it has been interpreted by writers as a musical accompaniment to dreams and a process of emotional introspection by the producer.
Until the Quiet Comes was marketed with two singles and a short film featuring music from the album. Flying Lotus also promoted the album with an international concert tour from October to November 2012, performing at venues in North America and abroad. The album debuted at number 34 on the Billboard 200 and sold 13,000 copies in its first week of release. It was a widespread critical success, receiving praise for its complex music and Flying Lotus' sound engineering.
I feel like that [dream] world fascinates me so much. That feeling is very present in the artist's mind where creative ideas flourish. The notion of the unknown and beyond is something that I've always been curious about, and the music and work that do [sic] is where I can ask those questions.
In 2010, Flying Lotus released his third album Cosmogramma to critical acclaim and mainstream exposure. He recorded the album while grieving his mother's death, and titled it as a reference to his late great-aunt Alice Coltrane. The album showcased his dense, loose mix of electronic and live instrumentation with avant-garde jazz, dance, and hip hop influences. During its recording, he developed a creative relationship with contributing bassist Thundercat, a member of his Brainfeeder record label. They continued working together on Flying Lotus' 2010 EP Pattern+Grid World, which continued the dense electronic style of Cosmogramma. They developed more musical ideas together, from which Flying Lotus culled and produced for Thundercat's debut album The Golden Age of Apocalypse in 2011.
For Until the Quiet Comes, Flying Lotus was inspired by African percussion music and psychedelic bands such as Silver Apples, Can, Stereolab, Portishead, and Gentle Giant. He also returned to listening to the music of his relatives Alice and John Coltrane after listening excessively to austere electronica while recording Cosmogramma. Musically, he wanted to avoid repeating himself and chose a more minimal direction for the album, seeking to eschew the "strange sense of urgency" of Cosmogramma's music for "tension and release". He elaborated on his direction for the album in an interview for The National, saying that "I think I'd have been in a bad position if I tried to recreate the same energy as I did on Cosmogramma – like, go in further. How about we pull back, try to do something that gets to the core of the emotional sentiment. Not so grand, more intimate. But still have the core of what it is."
Conceptually, Flying Lotus pursued human-subconscious and dream world themes. He sought to tone down Cosmogramma's grandiose, universal concept and create a timeless, journey-like work with Until the Quiet Comes, from which he felt listeners could interpret their own stories. He imagined himself astral projecting when conceiving the album and tried to translate ideas from fiction he had read into music, including holographic universes, metaphysics, New Age philosophy, and astrodynamics. In conceiving a narrative for the album, he drew on Joseph Campbell's hero's journey literary theory to introduce a world, characters, and situations musically. He characterized the album as both "a collage of mystical states, dreams, sleep and lullabies", and "a children's record, a record for kids to dream to". He clarified the idea in an interview for Spin as "that whole experience of being innocent in this new world that you don't really understand. I imagined Little Nemo on a flying bed floating over the city, and this is the soundtrack to it." Flying Lotus felt more confident in his ideas and as a recording artist after striving to distinguish himself from his contemporaries on previous albums.
[Flying Lotus] used to be printing mixes that were completely maxed, so this record was definitely different ... he's become more aware of the limitations of plug-ins, how far he can really overload things without the signal falling apart. Looking at way back until today, his compositional understanding, his ability to balance arrangements, has really moved forward into a less-cluttered headspace.
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Until the Quiet Comes
Until the Quiet Comes is the fourth studio album by American electronic music producer Flying Lotus, released on September 26, 2012 by Warp Records. Flying Lotus was inspired to create the album by psychedelic music, African percussion, and concepts of the human subconscious and dream world. He recorded for two years at his home in Los Angeles, experimenting with different mixing techniques and dynamics while primarily using an Ableton Live sequencer along with other instruments and software. The producer was accompanied on certain songs by guest vocalists, including Erykah Badu, Thom Yorke, and Laura Darlington. The album also continued his creative partnership with bassist Thundercat, who had appeared on Flying Lotus' 2010 record Cosmogramma.
An electronic jazz album, Until the Quiet Comes features free jazz elements, varying musical tones, contrasting scales, and shifts in rhythmic feel. Its songs are sequenced together and characterized by what music journalists noted to be ghostly vocal production, irregular drum beats, pulsating percussive textures, trembling basslines, trilled synthesizers, and fluctuating samples. The album has a journey-like concept and dreamy musical narrative, which Flying Lotus conceived while imagining himself in the process of astral projection. He later said the album could be interpreted uniquely by listeners; it has been interpreted by writers as a musical accompaniment to dreams and a process of emotional introspection by the producer.
Until the Quiet Comes was marketed with two singles and a short film featuring music from the album. Flying Lotus also promoted the album with an international concert tour from October to November 2012, performing at venues in North America and abroad. The album debuted at number 34 on the Billboard 200 and sold 13,000 copies in its first week of release. It was a widespread critical success, receiving praise for its complex music and Flying Lotus' sound engineering.
I feel like that [dream] world fascinates me so much. That feeling is very present in the artist's mind where creative ideas flourish. The notion of the unknown and beyond is something that I've always been curious about, and the music and work that do [sic] is where I can ask those questions.
In 2010, Flying Lotus released his third album Cosmogramma to critical acclaim and mainstream exposure. He recorded the album while grieving his mother's death, and titled it as a reference to his late great-aunt Alice Coltrane. The album showcased his dense, loose mix of electronic and live instrumentation with avant-garde jazz, dance, and hip hop influences. During its recording, he developed a creative relationship with contributing bassist Thundercat, a member of his Brainfeeder record label. They continued working together on Flying Lotus' 2010 EP Pattern+Grid World, which continued the dense electronic style of Cosmogramma. They developed more musical ideas together, from which Flying Lotus culled and produced for Thundercat's debut album The Golden Age of Apocalypse in 2011.
For Until the Quiet Comes, Flying Lotus was inspired by African percussion music and psychedelic bands such as Silver Apples, Can, Stereolab, Portishead, and Gentle Giant. He also returned to listening to the music of his relatives Alice and John Coltrane after listening excessively to austere electronica while recording Cosmogramma. Musically, he wanted to avoid repeating himself and chose a more minimal direction for the album, seeking to eschew the "strange sense of urgency" of Cosmogramma's music for "tension and release". He elaborated on his direction for the album in an interview for The National, saying that "I think I'd have been in a bad position if I tried to recreate the same energy as I did on Cosmogramma – like, go in further. How about we pull back, try to do something that gets to the core of the emotional sentiment. Not so grand, more intimate. But still have the core of what it is."
Conceptually, Flying Lotus pursued human-subconscious and dream world themes. He sought to tone down Cosmogramma's grandiose, universal concept and create a timeless, journey-like work with Until the Quiet Comes, from which he felt listeners could interpret their own stories. He imagined himself astral projecting when conceiving the album and tried to translate ideas from fiction he had read into music, including holographic universes, metaphysics, New Age philosophy, and astrodynamics. In conceiving a narrative for the album, he drew on Joseph Campbell's hero's journey literary theory to introduce a world, characters, and situations musically. He characterized the album as both "a collage of mystical states, dreams, sleep and lullabies", and "a children's record, a record for kids to dream to". He clarified the idea in an interview for Spin as "that whole experience of being innocent in this new world that you don't really understand. I imagined Little Nemo on a flying bed floating over the city, and this is the soundtrack to it." Flying Lotus felt more confident in his ideas and as a recording artist after striving to distinguish himself from his contemporaries on previous albums.
[Flying Lotus] used to be printing mixes that were completely maxed, so this record was definitely different ... he's become more aware of the limitations of plug-ins, how far he can really overload things without the signal falling apart. Looking at way back until today, his compositional understanding, his ability to balance arrangements, has really moved forward into a less-cluttered headspace.