Lusine will release his Sensorimotor LP on March 3rd via Ghostly International. The work of Seattle-based producer Jeff McIlwain, the upcoming record will also feature vocals from longtime contributors like Benoît Pioulard, wife Sarah McIlwain, and Vilja Larjosto. Discussing the album title, the musician explains:
“…the concept behind Sensorimotor pulls from a special kind of double meaning of the word. The literal, to me, is the integration of your senses with actions, like with birds and how they move so fluidly in flocks. It?s just fascinating how their brains are able to comprehend such quick actions collectively at once. The symbolic is a bit harder to put into words. I guess it?s just the concept of figuring out how much control you have over your artistic output — what types of restrictions you should place on it versus how much of it just involves instinct and intuitiveness.”
On Lusine’s track “Just A Cloud,” which features vocals fro Vilja Larjosto, you can hear McIlwain’s need for “restriction”–or rules/boundaries–being pressed upon by more instinctive urges. The result is a woozy back-and-forth between expected strategies and unexpected sonic surprises. Combining pulsing bass with warm, radiating synth tones, it’s the producer’s work on Larjosto’s vocals, slightly skewed and filtered into strange new shapes, that provide this cut with intriguing twists and turns.
