Journey Test

"Bliss is a fleeting memory permeating the intimate landscape of Journey Test" - Foxy Digitalis"Deeply resonant – a gentle pull out of the substrate" – Tome To The Weather Machine'Journey Test' is composer and pianist Tristan Eckerson's first album under the moniker of Purple Decades, his new ambient project. While his past work has focused largely on solo piano, Purple Decades is an exploration into soundscapes, electronic textures, and hypnotic musical environments. While many tracks on the album still feature piano or keyboards in some form, the compositional approach is accompanied by extensive work with reverb, foley, and orchestral electronic arrangements, and some tracks have eschewed the piano completely, opting instead for immersive and texturally rich auditory journeys.Each of the 8 songs on 'Journey Test' convey a sense of serene movement and cinematic scale, conjuring the horizon line of landscapes both distant and internal, a wordless dialectic between contentment and nostalgia. Tracks like the piano-driven 'Kagami' and the slow-building title track (whose crescendo brings to mind Sigur Ros) emphasize beguiling and cyclical melodies... morecreditsreleased January 27, 2023Composed and recorded by Tristan EckersonMastered by Jason PowersDesign by Studio BernhardtBio:Purple Decades is the new Ambient project from Cincinnati based Pianist, Composer, and Producer Tristan Eckerson. In the past four years Tristan has released five full length albums and more than an album's worth of singles, both independently and with 1631 Recordings (Nils Frahm, Dustin O'Halloran, Hauschka), A Remarkable Idea (Bloc Party, Benoît Pioulard, Maxïmo Park, Robot Koch), Mellotron Records, 7K! Records, and Sonder House. He has toured through North America and Europe and has composed music for award winning commercials, short films, and web series. His music has received multiple sync placements in television and has been streamed over thirty million times worldwide. Most recently Tristan contributed a track to the 2022 Piano Day Compilation, released by German label Leiter and featuring artists such as Olafur Arnalds, Chilly Gonzales, and Balmorhea.license