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Label: Glossy Mistakes
Catno: GLOSSY018
Formats: 1x Vinyl LP Album
Country: Spain
Release Date: Nov 1, 2023
Styles: Ambient Downtempo Experimental
Magic Mountain is the third full-length album from the itinerant American businessman, composer, and producer Martin Glass. Inspired by German electronic music pioneer Edgar Froese, Vangelis, early Warp Records releases, The Orb and The Future Sound of London, the album is a Fellinian memory maze of new age wellness culture, mid-20th century Hollywood glitz, exhaustion, dreams, fantasy, desire and listless ennui. The less sense it makes, the more we can't stop listening to it.
Drawing from the impressionistic recollections of an unreliable narrator with an ever-loosening relationship with time and space, Magic Mountain tells the story of Martin’s feverish stay in a celebrity health resort in the hills beyond Hollywood. Over the course of thirteen evocatively titled tracks, the album unfolds like a half-remembered dream of a place somehow lost and imagined but not beyond our reach. Expressed through sweeping, retrofuturistic synthesisers, haunted old-time melodies, grainy samples and the occasional gently lulling rhythm, it plugs directly into emotion and pleasure, calling the listener to fall into the fantasy.
“As I’ve got older, I just want the music to be evocative, to take people away, to transport them somewhere, to move them,” Martin says. That’s such a basic requirement of music, I know, but – to me, increasingly – it’s becoming the only requirement! How can this record stop somebody on their mobile phone and make them feel something or yearn for something?”
A1 - Silver Screen Wellness
A2 - Morning Walk with Marlene Dietrich
A3 - Berthold Brecht Aqua Aerobics
A4 - Seven Year Massage
A5 - Sophia Meet Me At The Sanatorium
A6 - Film Night at Magic Mountain
B1 - The Imaginarium Of Groucho Marx
B2 - Grace and Marcello Bored on the Sun Terrace
B3 - Ancient Stars
B4 - Dean Martin's Blizzard Dreams
B5 - Cognac at the Esalen Lounge
B6 - Buchla Mind Correction
B7 - Carnival of the Jetsetters