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Paradise Cinema to projekt prowadzony przez multiinstrumentalistę Jacka Wyllie (Portico Quartet/Szun Waves) z udziałem Khadima Mbaye, Tonsa Sambe i Laurence'a Pike'a.

Pierwsza, tytułowa płyta Paradise Cinema, wydana w 2020 roku, została nagrana w Dakarze i zawierała gęste rytmy muzyki Mbalax połączone z saksofonem i syntezatorami Wyllie'ego.

Nowy album „returning, dream” został stworzony w Londynie przez Wyllie'ego, zawiera tez dodatkowyme nagrania z Dakaru i Sydney. Stanowi ukłon w stronę Jona Hassella, Terry Rileya, Dona Cherry i Midori Takady, jednoczesnie poruszając się w bardziej współczesnej elektronice, ambiencie i muzyce "nie-zachodniej", czerpiąc inspirację nawet z fizyki i science fiction.

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‘Returning, Dream’ is the second album from Paradise Cinema – the ‘Fourth World’ inspired project led by multi-instrumentalist Jack Wyllie (Portico Quartet/Szun Waves). While Wyllie’s other projects move between tightknit electronica, widescreen minimalism and improvised ambient sounds, ‘returning, dream’ contains nods to Jon Hassell, Terry Riley, Don Cherry and Midori Takada as well as more contemporary electronic, ambient and non-western music and even draws inspiration from physics and science fiction.

The first, eponymous, Paradise Cinema record, released in 2020, was recorded in Dakar (Wyllie lived in Senegal for a while in the late 2010s) and featured the dense rhythms of Mbalax music combining with Wyllie’s textural saxophone and synth playing, but here he takes a step into the unknown: The music is no longer built primarily around the rumbling propulsiveness of Mbalax, but takes its inspiration from the Many-Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics, which suggests that there are many different worlds that branch off from our own. Wyllie explains: “It is an imagining of what music could be like in a different time and space, ancient and futuristic from everywhere and nowhere at once. I was listening to a lot of physics podcasts when I created this record. I loved the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics; about the multiple paths we are taking each time a quantum decision is taken. The different worlds then splitting off like branches on a tree. I could imagine different histories and worlds and multiple versions of myself, others and even other societies existing. In this album I’ve dug into these ideas and attempted to make music that would come from those different spaces, trying to poke my finger through to the other selves and stories. Effectively a form of composed science fiction, the music is an idea of what might be occurring or have occurred on a branch of the tree in a different world. But I like to think the tracks might actually have been composed somewhere or sometime.”

Created in London by Jack Wyllie with additional recordings from Dakar and Sydney, ‘returning, dream’ blends sounds that do not typically live together. It features Khadim Mbaye (sabar drums) and Tons Sambe (tama drums) who provide the dense Sengalese rhythms, plus Szun Waves colleague Laurence Pike, also on drums.

“An intriguing blend of minimal electronics and mbalax rhythms.” The Guardian****

“Portico Quartet’s Jack Wyllie makes with mbalax percussionists Khadim Mbaye and Tons Sambe” Mojo ****

“Weighty hypnotic chords and jazzy saxophone ambience” Electronic Sound

“Experimental and ambitious” Future Music

“Incredible polyrhythms that accompany the record’s bright orange ambient washes” The Quietus