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Paradise Cinema to release second album, returning, dream, in September; listen to lead single ‘a morning in the near future’

23 July 2024

Photo: Suzie Howell

Back in 2020, multi-instrumentalist Jack Wyllie (Portico Quartet/Szun Waves) unleashed his new collaborative project, Paradise Cinema, and a self-titled debut album. Four years on, a new Paradise Cinema album will be released with contributions from Khadim Mbaye, Tons Sambe and Laurence Pike. Entitled returning, dream, the album is influenced by the likes Jon Hassell, Terry Riley, Don Cherry and Midori Takada, also tappig into contemporary electronic, ambient and non-western music and is also inspired by physics and science fiction. About the album, Wyllie comments:

“It is an imagining of what music could be like in a different time and space, ancient and futuristic from everywhere and nowhere at once. I was listening to a lot of physics podcasts when I created this record. I loved the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics; about multiple worlds splitting off like branches on a tree when faced with quantum choices. I could imagine different histories and worlds and multiple versions of myself, others and even other societies existing. In this album I’ve dug into these ideas and attempted to make music that would come from those different spaces, trying to poke my finger through to the other selves and stories. Effectively a form of composed science fiction, the music is an idea of what might be occurring or have occurred on a branch of the tree in a very different world. But I like to think the tracks might actually have been composed somewhere or sometime.”

returning, dream is out on September 13th through Gondwana Records and Paradise Cinema are enticing us with the gorgeous, celestial and serene opening track, ‘a morning in the near future’,  featuring Jack Wyllie on flute, synths and drum machines with Tons Sambe on Tama drums. Take a listen below.

Mixtape #121

02 December 2020

It’s no secret we love Laurence Pike. A relentless drummer, phenomenal improviser and inventive composer, for the last two decades he has recorded and played with an array of bands, setting up his drumkit at the junction of electronic, jazz and post-rock. His 2018 debut solo album, Distant Early Warning, and its follow up, Holy Spring, both blew us away and made it to our Album Picks of the Year. Reacting to the catastrophic wild fires in his native Australia, Pike released his powerful third album, Prophecy, this summer. We asked him to put together this month’s mixtape and he wrapped up his “Pandemic Favourites” for us. An hour made up of the tracks he has found himself delving into as of late, this is the soundtrack we needed to end the year beautifully!

  1. Takashi Kokubo – 回廊の音楽 [Glossy Mistakes]
  2. Haji K – A White-Tinted Sky [Daisart]
  3. Paradise Cinema – It Will Be Summer Soon [Gondwana Records]
  4. Hiroshi Yoshimura – Surround [Misawa Home]
  5. Finis Africae – Hybla [EM Records]
  6. Phillip Wilkerson – The Way Of Heaven [Stereoscenic]
  7. Luke Abbott – Ames Window [Border Community]
  8. Lindsheaven Virtual Plaza – Polynomial Voices [Asura Revolver]
  9. Kit Downes – Circinus [ECM Records]
  10. H.Takahashi – Pollen [Where To Now?]

Jack Wyllie announces new collaborative project, Paradise Cinema, and self-titled debut album

25 August 2020

Known for his membership in Portico Quartet and Szun Waves, and a range of other collaborations, multi-instrumentalist Jack Wyllie has unleashed a new collaborative project called Paradise Cinema, featuring Khadim Mbaye (saba drums) and Tons Sambe (tama drums). Paradise Cinema is also the title of their debut album, recorded in Dakar, Senegal. “I had a lot of nights in Dakar when the music around the city would go on until 6am”, described Wyllie about his experience. “I could hear this from my bed at night and it all blended together, in what felt like an early version of the record.”

Paradise Cinema will see the light of day on October 9th through Gondwana Records but we can already hear the wondrous title track. Wyllie explains the inspiration behind it:

“There are a handful of old cinemas in Dakar – these big modernist buildings dotted around the city built around independence. They’re old and derelict now, but feel to me like monuments to that period, when the city was flooded with utopian ideas about its potential futures.”

Take a listen to ‘Paradise Cinema’ below.