Portals (2022 Remaster), by ROBERT STILLMAN

Portals (2022 Remaster)

by ROBERT STILLMAN

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High quality, 150g black vinyl LPs in extra heavyweight, reverse board, 3-color jackets. 9 tracks, 38 minutes.

Co-released with Kit Records (UK)
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High quality, 150g black vinyl LPs in extra heavyweight, reverse board, 3-color jackets. 9 tracks, 38 minutes.

Co-released with Kit Records (UK). The orange vinyl edition is the UK version. Orindal imported a limited quantity from Kit.

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Professionally dubbed Super Ferric clear cassette imprinted with white ink in a classic black Norelco case. Package includes a 4-panel, 3-color, Risograph-printed j-card with original art by Richard Greenan. 8 tracks, 34 minutes.

Please note that this is a tape of the original 2017 edition of Portals & does it not include bonus track "Portal 8 (The Stranger)."

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1.	Portal 1 04:21	buy track
2.	Portal 2 05:19	buy track
3.	Portal 3 03:34	buy track
4.	Portal 4 03:21	buy track
5.	Portal 5 06:01	buy track
6.	Portal 6 05:48	buy track
7.	Break 00:57	buy track
8.	Portal 7 04:33	buy track
9.	Portal 8 (The Stranger) 04:07	buy track

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Portals is an album of minimal electric piano improvisations by UK-based multi-instrumentalist & composer Robert Stillman. Inspired by American ‘new-age’ luminaries like Laraaji, Iasos, and Stephen Halpern, Stillman’s layers of playful, meditative electric piano figures, saturated by warm tape hiss & psychedelic delay effects, are occasionally accompanied by “found sound” field recordings, creating a compelling yet calming listening experience.

Portals was recorded at home in Broadstairs, Kent during the winter of 2016-2017 & originally released on cassette in December 2017 by Orindal Records. Three subsequent represses followed, & Portals became the most repressed cassette release in Orindal’s 11 year history. This new vinyl edition, co-released by UK label KIT Records, is remastered by Matt Barnhart & includes bonus track “Portal 8 (The
Stranger).”

Here’s Robert Stillman’s original statement on the original cassette release of Portals:

Portals is an album of multi-tracked improvisations on Fender Rhodes electric piano. The music’s repetitive structure is intended to encourage a state of ‘no-mind’ in the listener, acting as a gateway out of thoughts and into the present moment. Headphones are recommended for the ideal listening experience.

Aquarium Drunkard’s 2017 review:

Watch out for those late in the year surprises. Eclectic composer Robert Stillman sneaks in just under the 2017 wire with Portals, a new lp of Fender Rhodes improvisations. Recorded at his home in Kent during the winter of 2016-2017, right around the time his remarkable album Rainbows was released, the new album drifts into lo-fi ambient territory. Stillman designed it as a headphone album and it excels
with a nice pair on, its layers pulse with warmth and the gentle abstraction afforded by a classic electric piano.

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released January 21, 2022

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ROBERT STILLMAN Kent, UK

Robert Stillman is a musician from the northeast United States, now based in East Kent, UK. His music juxtaposes the archaic with the futuristic, incorporating influences of American Folk Music, Jazz, Minimalism, and experimental electronic music to create a sound described by the Guardian as “lending an avant-garde shimmer to pre-modern American sounds.”

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