Paradise Cinema is a project led by multi-instrumentalist Jack Wyllie
(Portico Quartet/Szun Waves) with contributions from Khadim Mbaye, Tons
Sambe and Laurence Pike.
The first, eponymous, Paradise Cinema record, released in 2020, was
recorded in Dakar and featured the dense rhythms of Mbalax music
combining with Wyllie’s textural saxophone and synth playing.
New album ‘returning, dream’ was created in London by Wyllie with
additional recordings from Dakar and Sydney. While Wyllie’s other
projects move between tight-knit electronica, widescreen minimalism and
improvised ambient sounds, ‘returning, dream’ 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.
The album is set to be released on September 13th via Gondwana Records.
Tracklist:
1. a morning in the near future
2. returning, dream
3. python
4. tide
5. crossing
6. nowhere, home
7. night search
8. end, setting