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Restless Abandon

by Nina Buchanan

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1.
Skiddiks 04:56
2.
Carrier Bag 05:20
3.
Sloopy 03:14
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5.
Shifter 05:18
6.
Interlude 02:25
7.
Is It Real 03:08
8.
Rinse 04:24
9.
Whim 02:39

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Heavy Machinery Records are excited to announce Restless Abandon the brilliant new album from Melbourne electronic producer Nina Buchanan.

Restless Abandon is the result of a dissolution of boundaries - between rhythm and melody, between classifications of genre, between an immediate tumult of feelings and a yearning for something better.

Spread across nine compositions, the album maps out a broad palette of moods and contexts. Throughout the release, Nina continues to contort her signature bright, kaleidoscopic synthwork into new forms. The productions bubble with broken drums, blazing fast rhythms, and constantly shifting tones.

Each individual track mirrors the construction of the album, unfurling in progressions that feel spontaneous and at times unpredictable. Pensive ambient interludes slot among ecstatic, driving tracks, with the record evoking genre affiliations as broad as 90s electronica, IDM, generative synthesiser music, and minimalism.

Nina Buchanan channels the intensity and euphoria of dance music while shedding its usual linearity, a reflection of her own particular methodology of constructing sounds and arrangements. She works in collaboration with her machines through colliding tones and drum patterns; finding ideas in the spaces between, from the emergent rhythms, dissonances, and harmonics.

Throughout the album, she muses on the transformative potential of technology and how that interacts with core parts of the human condition. Nina provokes questions in listeners - how do we balance helplessness and hope, desire and exhaustion, compassion and rage? Restless Abandon provides no easy resolutions, instead creating a space for listeners to hold conflicting things in balance, even if just for a moment.

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released November 15, 2021

Written, recorded and produced by Nina Buchanan
Mixed by Corey Kikos
Mastered by Ruy Mariné at Dubplates & Mastering
Artwork by Nina Buchanan
Design by Luke Fraser at Grin Creative
Project coordination by Amber Arizono
Series curated and produced by Miles Brown

All tracks © Nina Buchanan 2021

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