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4n_Objx

by Gryphon Rue

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    releases June 28, 2024

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    Side A:
    High Priestess
    Split-level Mirage
    Shibboleth
    Alluvials
    Rake's Progress

    Side B:
    Dividend
    World's Fastest Talking Man
    Auscultation
    Operation for Preferred Embodiment
    Thresher

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High Priestess 05:34
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2.
Split-level Mirage
3.
Shibboleth
4.
Alluvials
5.
Rake's Progress
6.
Dividend
7.
World's Fastest Talking Man
8.
Auscultation
9.
Operation for Preferred Embodiment
10.
Thresher

about

The story of Gryphon Rue’s music is a deeply personal and richly complex one.

Born in New York City, Rue spent his early years pulsing back-and-forth between urban life in Manhattan and a folky upbringing in Woodstock. A kid regular at his grandfather's Club Vinyl, Rue kept his eyes on Danny Tenaglia and Timmy Regisford in the DJ booth.

Reflecting this contrasting, at times conflicting background, 4n_Objx is a sonic reflection of a divided psyche - a "split-level mirage," as one track is titled. It is a reconstruction of the overwhelming fullness of experience, which seems to apply more than ever before.

Departing from the gentle ambiences of A Spirit Appears to a Pair of Lovers (2022), the tracks on 4n_Objx careen, lunge, and leap from cliff to ridge, circuit to synapse. Left-field, nervy rhythms flirt with a post-punk feel Rue calls "elastic dance." As if one could stretch “dance music” to include something broader: environmental sounds, brain dance, the passing of current through a filament.

Rue wants to suggest "biological actions or molecular events." Rather than an arc this record spins more like a spiral of entrancing activity - it seems like it might relent at times, but it always pulls you back in, and quite ferociously. A textural feast that reveals a hypersensitivity to processes, interrelatedness, and movement.


Josefina Spectralette



On the cover:

"Onyeocha" by Amagu Izzi, a black and white photograph of an Igbo masquerader taken in 1982. I came across it in the ethnographer James Clifford’s essay Ethnographic Surrealism, and it has stuck in my head for years. His costume and disposition is extremely fascinating. I do not fully understand how it corresponds to my music but it does on some level. Formally, the dress suggests pliability and tautness all the same, especially in his neck extension. There is an extraordinary multilayering of meanings. The masked man mirrors the image of the ethnographer; he holds a notebook, pencil, and has fashioned above his own wrapped head a carved wooden face adorned with a pith helmet. It is playful, and yet it is a critical, doubling, self-reflective gesture. The cover of Clifford's The Predicament of Culture shows the photo in a Rorshach-like mirrored image. I distorted it manually in a photocopy machine.

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releases June 28, 2024

Music composed and produced by Gryphon Rue.
Gryphon Rue: Jupiter-6, Farfisa compact fast 2/c, Harmonium, Modular synth, Mellotron Micro, DRM-16, Lyra-8, Electric Bass, Electric Guitar, Percussion, Field recordings.
Will Epstein: OB-6 on tracks 2, 3, 4.
Elements of Tracks 3 + 5 recorded live at Roulette, Brooklyn.
Elements of Track 7 recorded live at Fondazione ICA Milano.
Recorded 2023-2024 in Crown Heights and High Falls, NY.
Additional recording at Spillway Sound.
Mixed at People Teeth by Gryphon Rue and Nicholas Principe.
Mastered by Joe Lambert.
Lacquer cut at DeepGrooves.
Design by Holton Rower.
Music videos by Keren Cytter.
GR004 | ©℗ Gryphon Rue 2024

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Gryphon Rue is an artist, composer, and musician based in New York City,

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