Hey Jammer,

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We’re going cerebral on this Jam of the Week with the track HANZO Pt.1 from the casually dystopic cinematic album ARCMAPS by Vancouver retro-futurist SAN.

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SAN’s Stefan Nazarevich sonically imagines a world in decline through the gradual disintegration of pop hooks and forward-thinking beats. HANZO Pt.1  is part of a greater visual-album, a 20 minute art film exploring the themes of emotional detachment and identity in a lo-fi near future. Nazarevich describes it as something “which explores a myriad of worlds that erupt forth from an artificial imagination […] a possible future in which humanity dissociates from the real world through digital pleasure - a doomed assembly line, building marvels only to destroy them. The meticulous production echoes these themes, further building a world that feels paradoxically vast and ancient, erudite and intimate.”

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Joey Malbon