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Retro Porter

by A Journey of Giraffes

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Limited Edition Dual Compact Disc in Digipak

    Includes digital pre-order of Retro Porter. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
    shipping out on or around June 7, 2024
    edition of 25 
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    Pre-order of Retro Porter. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
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    releases June 7, 2024

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  • Full Digital Discography

    7
    releases

    Get all 7 A Journey of Giraffes releases available on Bandcamp and save 20%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Retro Porter, Empress Nouveau, Spool, Sunshine Pilgrim Map, Armenia, Kona, and Hour Club. , and , .

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1.
Happy Every Holiday
2.
Glass Moon
3.
Trencadis
4.
Tourmaline
5.
Eusebi Walks 18:45
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6.
Serpent Bench
7.
18 Spires
8.
Statues Inside

about

“Retro Porter” is the lucky 7th album by A Journey of Giraffes for Somewherecold Records. Recorded in Barcelona and Baltimore, among other places, the album derives its inspiration from the architectural feats of Antoni Gaudi. Using Gaudi’s technique of trencadis- where cracked tile is rearranged and placed in a surreal yet somehow organized pattern- AJOG takes the fragments of sound and applies them in recursive formations. Motifs appear, dissolve, and reappear amidst other motifs undergoing the same process— familiarity escalates in tandem with unfamiliarity at a growing pace.

“Retro Porter” also draws its breath from the idea of the flaneur (see The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin). As described elsewhere, the flaneur “sees the world through a kaleidoscope, finds solitude in a crowd, and delights in anonymity.”

In short, everything connects neatly in “Retro Porter” though the pieces might appear disparate and diffuse. The sounds of this album disorient and orient simultaneously. The sum of all your daydreams writ large.

credits

releases June 7, 2024

recorded from 2021-2023.

Recorded in Baltimore, Barcelona, Kill Devil Hills, Madrid, and Sitges.

Mastered by Jason T. Lamoreaux

**opening bells (Toledo, Spain) recorded on June 20, 2019.

"In our dreams, all properties of time are destroyed."
- Ryuichi Sakamoto

Album art by Henri Lane.

Thanks to: Liz, Henri, Jason, Zed, Gaudi, and Tetsu.

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