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Monotone

by PHTALO

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Monotone 04:29
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Space Step 04:15
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You're The One 03:19
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Strive 03:20
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Chances Are 04:29
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Monotone is the second album from composer and producer Heidi Mortenson’s non-binary moniker Phtalo, pronounced ‘thalo’, releasing on Cristian Vogel’s imprint Endless Process.

The new record is a sonic exploration into the meeting of modern and vintage sound and music production techniques, where processed vocals are a minimalist art form, in a carefully selected machine park of synth and glitch. Phtalo distills an experimental approach of dynamic sound and versatile composition into stunning works suspended between detailed sonic tapestries and gestural electronica. Touching upon styles and genres like IDM, avantgarde and ambient, the record testifies an experienced knowledge of a wide spanned electronic music history, wired into a new and contemporary sound.

Just like Phtalo’s gender-nonconforming identity, the tracks on Monotone are quick to take new shapes, while keeping the core intact. The record was made in Phtalo’s studio, where they live in a wooden cabin, at the coastal shores of Denmark. Surrounded by music and nature, Phtalo has found a way to balance their creative life on the spectrum. So far, autism has been a living condition that Phtalo has been quiet about, but like first movers such as Hannah Gadsby, Phtalo is now ready to talk and share the awareness that obviously and painstakingly lacks in society in general.

In music Phtalo is absorbed by textural subtleties and the meeting of opposites. The seven album tracks invites us on a trip that doesn’t necessarily follow conventional arrangements, but lets us board and meet the unexpected. Welcome to Monotone.

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released July 1, 2022

Composed Produced Mixed by Phtalo
Mastered by Guy Davie at Electric Mastering, London

Supported by Aarhus Music Fund

www.nosnetrom.net

Endless Process

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Electronic non-binary composer and producer. Long solo career via Heidi Mortenson with 7 LPs. My own imprint Wired. Have remixed for Laurie Anderson, Austra, Else Marie Pade. 6 Gaffa Award noms for solo releases. My music Featured on The L Word.

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