Elaenia

Description

It was the arrival of a Studer A80 master recorder at Sam Shepherd's, aka Floating Points, that pushed him to build the studio which gave birth to his first album, Elaenia. After a slight miscalculation that prevented him from physically integrating it into his home, the sequence of events is a magnificent example of the butterfly effect.Breaking with electronic music on his laptop, the DJ, producer and composer spent the next five years creating Elaenia, while DJing in cities around the world and preparing his PhD in neuroscience. An incredibly original album, inspired by classical music, jazz, electronic music, soul and even Brazilian popular music, Elaenia - named after the bird of the same name - embodies Floating Points' avant-garde vision in 2015.