This summer’s best kept secret is the FRKWYS Vol. 7 on RVNG Intl. A 5 piece collaboration by the who’s who of the tropical/drone/newage scene. Daniel Lopatin aka OPN, Laurel Halo, James Ferraro aka ½ of Lamborghini Crystal & The Skaters, Samuel Godin and David Borden of Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Co. a pioneer of synth-led minimalist electronica.
“FRKWYS Vol 7 is a cross-generational piece of improvised music set on a grand scale. A jam session that spans decades but never sounds like a clash of styles; it sounds ageless. The recordings were made over just two days in August of last year, these sessions finally being cut down into two pieces, ‘People of the Wind’ and ‘Internet Gospel’, which were then separated into two parts each. Aside from to the duration, no other modifications or additional overdubs were made. Each of the five players see their styles not just flirt with those of the others’, but actually entwine so they actually become a seamlessly integrated flow of sound and music.” The Liminal