Tangential City, by Pie Eye Collective

Tangential City

by Pie Eye Collective

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1.	Away Mission 04:29	buy track
2.	Summation 04:40	buy track
3.	Line of Best Fit 03:10	buy track
4.	Land of Wood and Water 03:16 video	buy track
5.	Pie's Eyes (feat. Hector Plimmer) 04:06	buy track
6.	Satellite 01:05	buy track
7.	Uroboros 01:49	buy track
8.	Searching 03:08	buy track
9.	Tangential City 05:09	buy track
10.	Grounded 02:28	buy track
11.	Regeneration 02:59	buy track
12.	Axiom 05:32	buy track
13.	The Infinite Boundary 02:50	buy track

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Encompassing elements of experimental techno, ambient, dub and jazz; sonic scientist Pie Eye Collective - the solo project of Bristol-born, London-based Matthew Gordon - returns with second album ‘Tangential City’, an instrumental exposition of how people experience different lives in the same city.

With debut album ‘Salvation’ released in 2021, Matthew Gordon gained emphatic support from Mary Anne Hobbs, Jamz Supernova and Tom Ravenscroft at BBC Radio 6 Music and Radio 1Xtra. His one-man live show saw him experimenting in venues around London and supporting luminaries including Emma-Jean Thackray, Ben Marc and Richard Spaven.

Pie Eye Collective’s voice remains clear in this new record, while hinting at exciting new developments in an ongoing exploration of rhythm and frequency. With a quasi-scientific, research based approach to music making, Pie Eye Collective creates an organic collage of evocative sounds, which could be filed alongside records by Theo Parrish, Lorraine James or Space Afrika. Personally influenced by mathematics, graphs, geometry, and calculus; his genre-melding music draws equally from jazz and soul music, both ancient, contemporary and futuristic. Time signatures, sometimes hard to pin down, only lead to a more hypnotic sense of being afloat in a sea of harmonics and strangely familiar musical memories. Melodic and full of spatial movement, momentary pulses and interjection; it is music that wants you to free yourself completely and wash over you.

One person has a different experience of living in a city to that of another. Barred by accessibility, wealth, race, gender, nationality; parts of the city are opened or closed to the individual with or without their knowledge. Impressions can either diverge and deviate so much that they could be describing entirely separate places, or be so similar they could be living the same life. Multiply this by the several million people that live next to each other and a wildly fractured vision appears. A multiverse of possibile experiences. Can the paths of these separate existences be unlocked and traversed? 'Tangential City' is the point of intersection.

“'Tangential City' was coined by my younger brother to describe our neurodivergent conversational style,” says Gordon, “hopping around seemingly unrelated topics that are connected to each other by infinitesimal tangents. I’ve adopted 'Tangential City' as an expression of the real and metaphysical liminal realities we all exist in. It’s the atlas of my musical/artistic mind.”

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released November 25, 2022

Written, produced and mixed by Matthew Gordon
Except Pie's Eyes written by Matthew Gordon and Hector Plimmer
Mastered by Adam Scrimshire
Artwork by Ralph Berryman
Label design by Jonny Drop

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