back to
Carpe Sonum Records
We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Outside of Time

by Ethernet

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $3 USD  or more

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Includes unlimited streaming of Outside of Time via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 3 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      $3 USD or more 

     

1.
Dyad 06:57
2.
Hypnosis 08:06
3.
Satellites 07:10
4.
Arcana 07:11
5.
Timeless 12:31
6.
Cosmology 06:10
7.
Clock Faces 07:09
8.
Spells 04:23

about

Tim Gray, aka Ethernet, is a patient man. His two sterling albums for the Kranky label portrayed an artist for whom meditative gravitas is indeed the gateway to a distinctively becalming inner state, one where the travails of the outside world are vanquished in a haze of synthetic tug and flow. Gray’s debut for Carpe Sonum expands on those earlier conceptualizations, as if Gray has found a means to tap deep into his imaginative resources, striking gold in the process. Each of the eight pieces here reveal subtle shifts in airmass and density, unveiling multiple striations of tonal variability that muster electronica’s most hypnotic contemporary urges of pulse construct while simultaneously nibbling on the heels of the nu-age. The opening “Dyad” is like a dub-techno base relief cast in Tangerine Dreams of Gas-eous form, it’s arcing atmospheres lighting up the soundfield aurora borealis-style. “Hypnosis” takes an altogether different tack, built on a foundation of Tibetan-bell gamelan that underpins Gray’s deft touch with irising chords snaking across misty mountain hops. And the lengthy trek of “Timeless” is just that, memories suspended upon the epoch-spanning altars of forgotten gods. So what happens here? To paraphrase Dave Bowman, “something wonderful”.

A new album inspired by the "timeless" voices of '90s-era synthesizers and ambient music that I grew up listening to, as well as more modern "pop ambient" composition styles, filtered through the Ethernet lens of trance-inducing washes of tones and pulses. It is also intended to invoke a hypnotic state in the listener to carry them "outside of time" for purposes of deep healing and catharsis. The album has a stronger emotional undercurrent than previous Ethernet material, with rich layers of harmonics and evocative melodic passages throughout.

credits

released January 20, 2018

All tracks written by Tim Gray.

Mastered by Jason Corder / offthesky.

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Ethernet

Pulse-ambient music, releases on Kranky, Carpe Sonum, Recycled Plastics, Lifelike Family, Tamarack Music, Waveguide Audio, others.

contact / help

Contact Ethernet

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Ethernet, you may also like: