Visible Cloaks, the experimental ambient music duo of Spencer Doran and Ryan Carlile, have a new album on the way.
Marking the follow-up to their 2017 debut Reassemblage, and 2019’s collaborative LP serenitatem with Yoshio Ojima and Satsuki Shibano, the new record features 14 tracks and includes contributions from the aforementioned Ojima and Shibano, as well as Félicia Atkinson and Motion Graphics.
Commenting on the LP, Doran said: “Instead of creating pieces that function horizontally as environments, we wanted to conceptualise them as living material changing in space, continually in flux.”
Doran and Carlile have shared the Motion Graphics-featuring lead cut ‘Disque’ to mark the announcement of Paradessence. You can watch a video for the song below.
Speaking about the song, Doran said: “I never have a specific vision of a completed song which we’re trying to enact as faithfully as possible in the studio. It is more setting up various conditions in which ideas emerge. I conceptualise pieces like ‘Disque’ with this kind of vision in mind, creating a series of unfolding abstractions from an initial source using various stochastic techniques we have developed over the years of our musical practice.”
RVNG Intl. will release Paradessence on 22 May 2026.
