“Striking a balance between dreamy ambiences and grounding, intense distortions…”
No Rent Records is announcing the release of Jim Rats’ new album “Perfuser” available 10/24/23. “Perfuser” is the newest album by Philadelphia based visual artist and experimental musician Jim Rats. This striking album is viscerally surreal like an acid trip through a battered subconscious. Throughout its 25 minutes “Perfuser” imprints vast dreamscapes on the listener inviting us with a choice–either succumb to and float into a sonically induced torpor, or delve deeper into the experience and break through to the other side. Paired with Jim’s hypnotic AI generated visual companion piece “Perfuser” is a well balanced experience which would be equally at home in an art gallery as in a steamy underground basement show.
“Perfuser was the result of my music experimentations at Heaven's Gate, having fun striking a balance between dreamy ambiences and grounding, intense distortions while building little sound worlds I could trip into and through. During the process there were always extra voices and noises that would accompany me in the PA in the basement making me not feel so alone… so the sound was also inspired by this interaction and my ability to capture these sounds or replicate them in honor of those unknown forces. Perfuser is also inspired by some dreams influenced by this shrieking sound outside my bedroom window which would always wake me up. It sounded like a car slamming on its breaks and I would anticipate a crash and an explosion that would never happen. In Perfuser, I tried to climax on some beautiful explosions while exploring those dreams the screeching sound entered and manipulated. I also wanted to create a visual experience for the project to illuminate some of these fucked up dreamscapes I saw. The visual album is a flowing collage of subconscious-like ai generated films.” – Jim Rats
Format: CS, Digital
Track List
1. Hypnogen
2. Bugs On Downer
3. You Know My Game So You Destroy Me Therefore I Love You
4. Phone Call Dreaming II
5. Perfuser
6. Activate In The Water Of Night