{"product_id":"sanger-luke-dew-point-harmonics","title":"SANGER, LUKE - Dew Point Harmonics","description":"\u003cdiv id=\"description\"\u003e\"Balmat began its journey in 2021 with the release of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eLuke Sanger\u003c\/b\u003e's\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLanguid Gongue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(BALMAT 001LP). Now, in 2024, the Norfolk musician rejoins the label with\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDew Point Harmonics\u003c\/i\u003e, the first repeat appearance on the label. Sanger's new album feels like a natural extension of his inaugural record for Balmat: It's a bewitching collection of esoteric synth sketches that slips unpredictably between consonant repetition, poignant melodies, and gnarled bursts of noise that catch in the ear like burrs in hiking socks. That natural metaphor is perhaps not accidental. Despite having been composed on Sanger's diverse array of hardware and self-written software, many of the tracks were first conceived while Sanger was hiking in a particularly wild and isolated section of the Norfolk coast. The field recording that opens the album, on \"6am Beach Walk,\" was taken on one of his many early-morning walks there, in which he and his dog might go for miles without seeing another soul. The album's title was inspired by the overnight condensation covering the long marram grass in the dunes, glistening in the early light (and drenching everything coming in contact with it) before evaporating in the morning sun. Indeed, the concept of dew point -- the temperature at which water vapor condenses into a liquid -- feels like the perfect metaphor for Sanger's music, in which foggy ambience is distilled into glistening quicksilver orbs, transient spheres of perfection eventually absorbed back into the atmosphere. A shapeshifting collection of richly detailed and deeply expressive electronic miniatures,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDew Point Harmonics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis both a testament to the mysteries of transformation and an invitation to get lost in the wilderness of your own imagination.\"\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Balmat","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":46171872657627,"sku":"","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2295\/2925\/files\/BALMAT012LP_CU.jpg?v=1729708559","url":"https:\/\/www.fusetronsound.com\/products\/sanger-luke-dew-point-harmonics","provider":"fusetron","version":"1.0","type":"link"}