{"title":"Paradise Cinema","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"returning-dream","title":"Returning, Dream","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReturning, Dream\u003c\/i\u003e is the second album from Paradise Cinema – the ‘Fourth World’ inspired project led by multi-instrumentalist Jack Wyllie (Portico Quartet\/Szun Waves). While Wyllie’s other projects move between tightknit electronica, widescreen minimalism and improvised ambient sounds, \u003ci\u003eReturning, Dream\u003c\/i\u003e contains nods to Jon Hassell, Terry Riley, Don Cherry and Midori Takada as well as more contemporary electronic, ambient and non-western music and even draws inspiration from physics and science fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first, eponymous, Paradise Cinema record, released in 2020, was recorded in Dakar (Wyllie lived in Senegal for a while in the late 2010s) and featured the dense rhythms of Mbalax music combining with Wyllie’s textural saxophone and synth playing, but here he takes a step into the unknown: The music is no longer built primarily around the rumbling propulsiveness of Mbalax, but takes its inspiration from the Many-Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics, which suggests that there are many different worlds that branch off from our own. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCreated in London by Jack Wyllie with additional recordings from Dakar and Sydney, \u003ci\u003eReturning, Dream\u003c\/i\u003e blends sounds that do not typically live together. It features Khadim Mbaye (sabar drums) and Tons Sambe (tama drums) who provide the dense Sengalese rhythms, plus Szun Waves colleague Laurence Pike, also on drums.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gondwana Records","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50380142838091,"sku":"2211966","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50380142674251,"sku":"2211965","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50380143231307,"sku":"2211967","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/returning_dream_90122f22_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726209102"},{"product_id":"paradise-cinema","title":"Paradise Cinema","description":"\u003cp\u003eMulti-instrumentalist Jack Wyllie (Portico Quartet\/Szun Waves) presents his new project Paradise Cinema. It was recorded in Dakar, Senegal in collaboration with mbalax percussionists Khadim Mbaye (saba drums) and Tons Sambe (tama drums). The impressionistic and dream-like quality of 'Paradise Cinema' is a stunningly effective realisation of Wyllie's experience, in a hypnagogic state of aural consciousness: \"I had a lot of nights in Dakar, when the music around the city would go on until 6am. I could hear this from my bed at night and it all blended together, in what felt like an early version of the record.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAtmospherically 'Paradise Cinema' is vaporous and enigmatic, but also percussive; existing in a paradoxical sound-space that's amorphous,yet still purposeful, serene, but propulsive and aesthetically sharp. Khadim Mbaye and Tons Sambe, provide the rhythmic backbone of the record. There are traditional elements of mbalax rhythm, but it is often deconstructed or played at tempos outside of the tradition, so while it hints at a location it occupies a space outside of any specific region. 'Paradise Cinema' is also informed by notions of hauntology – a philosophical concept originating in the work of French philosopher Jacques Derrida– on possible futures that were never realised and how directions taken in the past can haunt the present.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gondwana Records","offers":[{"title":"Green | LP","offer_id":50489224364363,"sku":"1099196","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/3ddddaad-252f-4485-a47c-8766dc1b289b_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727639979"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/collections\/paradise-cinema.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}