Imagine My Surprise, by Roy Werner

Imagine My Surprise

by Roy Werner

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TheSlowMusicMovement Roy Werner & friends close their eyes in the Moon Glyph commune & dare to dream of a magical place where childhood playfulness & innocence are eternal, weird is revered, New Age cosmonauts hijack the Space X satellites to deshitify the internet with messages of peace & love & consciousness heightening, psychotropic rituals reconnecting us to our ecosystemic responsibilities are a rite of passage. It's safe, happy, wondrous place. Never stop dreaming.A well deserved TSMM blog Tip of the Day.

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1.	Rainbow Metal Chime in the Sun 04:45	buy track
2.	Transit 02:38	buy track
3.	Guardian Angel Chime (with Andy Applegate) 04:27	buy track
4.	Nightwalk (with Patrick Shiroishi) 04:54	buy track
5.	Late Chime 03:39	buy track
6.	Auri 01:53	buy track
7.	Muzzy Doppler Chime 04:13	buy track
8.	Whistling on the Roses (with Les Halles) 04:10	buy track
9.	Boogie Woogie Wandering Moon (with Andy Applegate) 02:49	buy track
10.	Music for Five Dreams (with Cole Pulice) 06:06	buy track

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Previously known as G.S. Sultan, “Imagine My Surprise” is the first album released under his given name, Roy Werner. The moniker shift marks a methodological transition as well, bringing in collaborators to realize Roy’s hazy and offbeat electronic delirium. The sonic palette is as eclectic as ever; incorporating vibraphone, bells, flute, alto & tenor saxophone amongst his stretched and mutating electronics. There is a flurry of sonic exploration across the album’s two sides, embracing the surreal, the mellow and the peculiar.

From Roy— “Based around the concept of a ‘trickster noir’ - an attempt to sonically render a handful of half-remembered dreamscapes - sunburnt tiki haze sequence. “Imagine My Surprise” is the first recorded work released under my own name and the first to heavily feature contributions from fellow artists working in contemporary electronic music. Months and years worth of iterations on some of these pieces, then in a frenzy of late night sessions they collectively come into focus, mutating into these “freaky little ditties”…

Some incredibly choice performers were kind enough to add their touches on here, improvising over early drafts of their respective pieces, recordings eventually pulled to bits, rearranged and played back in duos & trios of themselves - it wasn’t so clear where these things were going until they had landed. Still in orbit of similar worlds as earlier G.S. Sultan work but slightly pared, braided more tightly around rhythmic center points, the putty’s form more clearly molded in the hand. At the fringe of consciousness, spin around to the tap of ecstatic serendipity on your shoulder… how embarrassing!”

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released November 17, 2023

Written and recorded by Roy Werner in Los Angeles between June 2020 and July 2023 with—

Andy Applegate: vibraphone (3, 9)
Baptiste Martin: flute (8)
Cole Pulice: alto saxophone (10)
Patrick Shiroishi: tenor and alto saxophones (4)
Eric Werner: misc. small bells & synthesizers (5, 7, 10)

Produced by Roy Werner and Eric Werner
Mastered by Kern Haug

Painting by Raymond Zarnowitz
Design by Steve Rosborough
Text by Mac Katter

Thanks so very much to Maggie Shannon, D Diako, Aaron Goldberg, Luke Thinnes, Sam Farzin, Hanna Hur, and all those involved in putting together these tunes

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