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"While possibly not the first ambient record to be inspired by J Dilla's Donuts, Secret Pyramid's A Vanishing Touch is in rarified company. The two seem antithetical -- with Donuts a now classic collection of short beats compiled together and A Vanishing Touch being a forty-minute suite consisting of fourteen pieces. However, like any genre, ambient music has a lot more going on beneath the surface than might be initially gleaned. From the start, Amir Abbey dropped his usual songwriting process of long contemplation and careful sculpting. 'I let the pieces live and breathe, and I spent a lot less time tweaking and editing. This allowed the record to come together quickly, with Abbey working on it nightly after his work day had ended. Working at home, as he always has, Abbey embeds synths, tape loops and processing, horns, ondes martenot, guitar, bass, and organ within the multi-tiered composition of A Vanishing Touch. Sounds morph, bleed, fade, and permeate with moments where a listener is able to make out what is being played at that moment. Each measure feels deep, singular, mysterious, and unconfined. It's a new approach to ambience?the magic of the moment as a moment, not stretched beyond its point in time."
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"Secret Pyramid is the nom de nocturne of Vancouver, BC's resident ambient explorer Amir Abbey. Having perfected his brand of elegant elegia over the past decade heard on albums released by illustrious imprints as Students of Decay, Ba-Da-Bing!, and Nice Up International, Abbey makes his Geographic North debut with Embers, Secret Pyramid's most sincerely solemn and curiously calming work to date."
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