Producer, songwriter and sound-artist Teplice returns to Hot Concept on a dream-trip with ‘Call It Home’, a two-track single accompanied by an enveloping remix from fellow electronic auteur, Karen Gwyer.
Exploring the utopian paradox, ‘Call It Home’ gently propels Teplice’s invitation to imagine a new lived experience, depicted with delicate analogue drums and warm, heavenly synths. “Will you pack up your bags and fly away?”, asks Teplice, detailing a lush exotic dreamscape before the bittersweet admission: “But there’s no guarantee, that you can call it home.”
More ambiguous but no less compelling, ‘Revival’ coaxes slow-motion rhythms from a sophisticated composition, inviting listeners to lean into Teplice’s vocals, beckoning beneath layer upon layer of a deep, almost digidub sound.
In conclusion, Karen Gwyer follows her recently co-founded new label Joko Bomp with a patient and precise reimagining of ‘Revival’. Deftly combining her industrial-tinted percussion with Teplice’s contrasting Balearic melody, the result is a welcome trip to the sharper edge of paradise.
Teplice is the project of Matilda Jones, born in London and based in Berlin. She has previously released on E.M.M.A’s Pastel Prism imprint and currently guest lectures in British Cultural Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, where she is writing a PhD on experimental innovations in contemporary UK radio and podcasting soundworks.
Additional mixing from Minor Science/Angus Finlayson.
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