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A longtime favourite of ours here at CTD, Anenon, the moniker of Los Angeles-based saxophonist, producer and composer Brian Allen Simon, has announced details of a new album. Entitled Dream Temperature, the record is set to arrive on April 24th through Tonal Union. Written and recorded over the past year in his home studio, it sees Anenon moving back towards a more electronic-leaning sound, this time built around a wind synthesiser, alongside piano and tenor sax, with breath and body at the centre of the process. As the press release describes, “the entirety of the album’s electronics are triggered by Brian’s lungs, generating otherworldly synths modulated by expressive breath control”. As with previous efforts, he continues to blur the lines between jazz, ambient and electronic forms, here with a slightly heavier and more textured feel that still retains a sense of intimacy.

The ethereal and moving ‘When The Light Appears, Boy’ is the latest track to be lifted from the album and you can stream it below.

Tongue is the imminent fourth album from Anenon, and after sharing two incredible singles, the title track and ‘Verso‘, the saxophonist and producer is getting us even more excited with the utterly beautiful and shimmering new track ‘Two for C’ now streaming. Take a listen below.

Tongue is out on February 9th through Friends of Friends.

Following the stunning first single ‘Verso‘, Anenon has unveiled another magical taste from his upcoming album Tongue with the title track streaming now. The single is described as “a startling slice of optimistic, focused exploration that gives glimmers of hope that will come with the flip of the calendar into 2018″. Listen to ‘Tongue’ below and grab the album when it drops on February 8th through Friends of Friends.

LA’s Anenon aka Brian Allen Simon has announced the follow up to last year’s wonderful album Petrol. Set to arrive on February 8th through Friends of Friends, Tongue was recorded near Palaia in Italy’s Tuscany region last April. Simon lived temporarily in a 16th century small villa  “to attempt to find something pure and ostensibly forgotten—soul music—not in the rhythm and blues sense, but something capable of reaching deep into our DNA coding and dimly remembered past”, explains the press release. This move, it adds, “is a reflection of Anenon’s drive to find a setting staggeringly gorgeous enough to match the iridescence of the compositions.” As with previous efforts, on Tongue we find Anenon exploring and merging an array of genres including jazz, classical, ambient and electronica.

‘Verso’ is the first stunning taste to be lifted from the album and you can stream it below.