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Visible Cloaks
Paradessence
PLANCHA - Cat No: ARTPL-254
- updated:2026-05-28
[Domestic CD release from PLANCHA. Includes one bonus track. Commentary by Yuji Shibasaki] Visible Cloaks' long-awaited new release. The title is taken from a word coined by writer Alex Shaker combining the words "paradoxical" and "essence. The album consists of 14 songs featuring Yuro Ojima, Satsuki Shibano, Félicia Atkinson, and others.
Track List
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1. Apsis
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2. Skylight
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3. Disque (ft. Motion Graphics)
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4. Balloon
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5. Slippage
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6. Telescoping
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7. Shapes (ft. Yoshio Ojima and Satsuki Shibano)
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8. Thinking (ft. Félicia Atkinson, Yoshio Ojima and Satsuki Shibano)
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9. Zinna
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10. Swirl
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11. Steel
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12. Intarsia (ft. Ioana Șelaru)
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13. Capgras
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14. System (ft. Componium Ensemble)
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15. Hycean (CD Bonus Track: not Japan-only)

The 14 songs on the album shimmer, swell, and sparkle against the backdrop of a faintly glowing night, a cavernous space shaped by sounds that are a rare and surrealistic representation of the natural world. The arrangements are at once grandiose and ephemeral, a reversal and a culmination of their previous work, an adventurous experiment unrivaled by any of their previous works."
Visible Cloaks is the project of Spencer Doran, one of the first to introduce Japanese environmental music to the world, and Ryan Carlile, a synthesizer player who worked with Eternal Tapestry and others. Visible Cloaks has been bringing a unique new flow to ambient, new age and IDM since the 2017 release of their album masterpiece "Reassemblage", and since 2019's "Serenitatem" with Yoshio Ojima & Satsuki Shibano The long-awaited new album, which will be released in 2019 with Yoshio Ojima & Satsuki Shibano. The album is a combination of digital and field recordings, with a transparent sound and a deepened sound. Please check it out! (from the comments on the LP)