{"title":"Lotus Eater","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"plasma-feat-lucy-rrose","title":"Plasma (feat. Lucy \u0026 Rrose)","description":"\u003cp\u003eLotus Eater is a duo consisting of Luca Mortellaro (Lucy) and Seth Horvitz (Rrose), techno artists just as comfortable operating in the uncharted area of experimental music who have gained a cult following, both influencing and challenging the direction of contemporary electronic music.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEschewing the typical instrumentation of techno but still inhabiting its archetypes, Lotus Eater uses synthesised sound and feedback as fundamental sources to generate both textural and percussive elements. A sense of tension and weight emerge from sources that cannot be easily pinpointed. Each release forms a complex narrative from a paradoxically simple and restrained set of sound sources.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOfficially formed in 2017, Lotus Eater came to life through several collaborations over a number of years, and finally blossomed with the release of its critically acclaimed debut album \"Desatura,\" which Lotus Eater toured live in 2018 - 2019.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2022 sees the release of the second Lotus Eater album \"Plasma\" and a new audiovisual live project to accompany it. \"Plasma\" unfolds with exacting precision by exhibiting a point of focus and expanding on it. It uses a single, throbbing pulse to generate a constellation of sounds and rhythms that form around it like a volcanic eruption in slow motion. Playing with our sense of time and weight, \"Plasma\" feels simultaneously slow and urgent, spacious and immense. Lotus Eater zooms into the infinite abyss and finds not just light, but fire at the end of the tunnel. Will we be saved, or will we burn?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stroboscopic Artefacts","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50452248559947,"sku":"2002062","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/cover.ki_1_70c9973e_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727145658"},{"product_id":"desatura","title":"Desatura","description":"\u003cp\u003eLucy and Rrose, now coming together as The Lotus Eaters, have established themselves separately as techno artists who are just as comfortable operating in the uncharted area of experimental music. Running their own labels (Stroboscopic Artefacts and Eaux, respectively), they have gained a cult following, both influencing and challenging the direction of techno. Their first collaboration took the form of mutual remixes. Lucy remixed Rrose, taking on his modern classic Waterfall while Rrose remixed Dadub for Stroboscopic Artefacts, and shortly thereafter contributed an extended EP as part of SAs Monad series. Eventually, the idea of working together became inevitable. Several intense sessions in Lucys Berlin studio followed, using mainly analog hardware. These sessions gave birth to a new project, starting with two EPs signed Lucy and Rrose, called The Lotus Eaters (SA) and The Lotus Eaters II (Eaux). With the Desatura album, the first release signed under the project name The Lotus Eaters, their common work is refined further, also becoming a live act which will debut at ADE (Amsterdam) 2018. With Desatura, Lucy and Rrose explore themes of physical density, emptiness, and space, creating sonic objects which can be rotated and viewed from multiple perspectives. Eschewing the typical instrumentation of techno, the duo use synthesized sound and feedback as fundamental sources to generate both textural and percussive elements. A sense of tension and weight emerge from sources that cannot be easily pinpointed. The resulting album forms a complex narrative from a paradoxically simple and restrained set of sound sources. A mysterious and profound accomplishment.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stroboscopic Artefacts","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP | x2","offer_id":50463836143947,"sku":"1141786","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/fbdd58f0-00e1-4b9d-86b2-5694910bd504_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727267144"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/lotus-eater.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}