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}} ''Until the Quiet Comes'' is the fourth studio album by American electronic producer Flying Lotus, released on September 26, 2012, by Warp Records. After releasing his 2010 album ''Cosmogramma'', Flying Lotus continued his creative partnership with bassist Thundercat and worked with him on music that led to the album. For ''Until the Quiet Comes'', he drew on African percussion and psychedelic musical influences, human-subconscious and dream world concepts, and different mixing techniques and dynamics. He recorded for two years at his home in Los Angeles primarily using an Ableton Live sequencer along with other instruments and software, and recorded with guest vocalists including Erykah Badu, Thom Yorke, Laura Darlington, and Niki Randa. An electronic jazz album, ''Until the Quiet Comes'' features free jazz elements, varying musical tones, contracting scale, and shifts in feel. Its songs are sequenced together and characterized by ghostly vocal production, irregular drum beats, pulsating percussive textures, trembling basslines, trilled synthesizers, and fluctuating samples. The album has a journey-like concept and dreamy musical narrative, which Flying Lotus conceived through astral projection and felt could be interpreted uniquely by listeners. Music writers interpret it as a musical accompaniment to dreams, as well as emotional introspection by Flying Lotus. ''Until the Quiet Comes'' was promoted with two singles and a short film featuring music from the album. Flying Lotus also embarked on a supporting international tour during October to November 2012, performing at venues in North America and abroad. The album debuted at number 34 on the US ''Billboard'' 200 and sold 13,000 copies in its first week. ''Until the Quiet Comes'' received rave reviews from music critics, who praised its complex music and Flying Lotus' sound engineering. == Background == In 2010, Flying Lotus released his third album ''Cosmogramma'' to critical acclaim and mainstream exposure. He recorded the album while grieving his mother's death, and titled it as a reference to his late great-aunt Alice Coltrane.〔 The album showcased his dense, loose mix of electronic and live instrumentation with avant-garde jazz, dance,〔 and hip hop influences. During its recording, he developed a creative relationship with contributing bassist Thundercat,〔 a member of his Brainfeeder record label.〔 They continued working together on Flying Lotus' 2010 EP ''Pattern+Grid World'',〔 which continued the dense electronic style of ''Cosmogramma''. They developed more musical ideas together, from which Flying Lotus culled and produced for Thundercat's debut album ''The Golden Age of Apocalypse'' in 2011.〔 For ''Until the Quiet Comes'', Flying Lotus was inspired by African percussion music and psychedelic bands such as Silver Apples, Can, Stereolab, Portishead, and Gentle Giant.〔 He also returned to listening to the music of his relatives Alice and John Coltrane after listening excessively to austere electronica while recording ''Cosmogramma''.〔 Musically, he wanted to avoid repeating himself and chose a more minimal direction for the album, seeking to eschew the "strange sense of urgency" of ''Cosmogramma''s music for "tension and release". He elaborated on his direction for the album in an interview for ''The National'', saying that "I think I'd have been in a bad position if I tried to recreate the same energy as I did on ''Cosmogramma'' – like, go in further. How about we pull back, try to do something that gets to the core of the emotional sentiment. Not so grand, more intimate. But still have the core of what it is." Conceptually, Flying Lotus pursued human-subconscious and dream world themes.〔 He sought to tone down ''Cosmogramma''s grandiose, universal concept and create a timeless, journey-like work with ''Until the Quiet Comes'',〔 from which he felt listeners could interpret their own stories. He imagined himself astral projecting when conceiving the album and tried to translate ideas from fiction he had read into music, including holographic universes, metaphysics, New Age philosophy, and astrodynamics. In conceiving a narrative for the album, he drew on Joseph Campbell's ''hero's journey'' literary theory to introduce a world, characters, and situations musically.〔 He characterized the album as both "a collage of mystical states, dreams, sleep and lullabies", and "a children's record, a record for kids to dream to".〔 He clarified the idea in an interview for ''Spin'' as "that whole experience of being innocent in this new world that you don't really understand. I imagined Little Nemo on a flying bed floating over the city, and this is the soundtrack to it."〔 Flying Lotus felt more confident in his ideas and as a recording artist after striving to distinguish himself from his contemporaries on previous albums. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Until the Quiet Comes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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