Black Taffy has a new track entitled “Ocarina” off his upcoming Opal Wand LP due out May 8th via Leaving Records. Discussing the album’s title, Dallas-based producer Donovan Jones explains:
“Opal Wand felt really right because, first of all, opal is a semi-precious stone. It’s super soft. A wand that’s made of opal technically couldn’t really exist because it would break really easily. It’s kind of like this object that the concept exists, but the physical form can’t really exist, so it’s kind of like a nod to these vaporwave ideas where people are making soundtracks for a video game that doesn’t exist … the concept is there but the physical form can’t really exist.“
Featuring twelve instrumental tracks recorded between Texas and Brazil, the producer says that Opal Wand‘s sound was influenced by listening to “music from the fifties and sixties like Ballroom,” as well as digging through the Easy Listening section of record stores on the hunt for “tuned percussion like vibraphone and celeste.”
“Ocarina” is a great example of the results as its mushroomy stumble through cascading strings and cloudy beats leads to an opiated fantasy that will have you hearing ghostly colors and seeing strange sounds. The visuals for “Ocarina” were created by Brian Tomerlin…
