Foundation Four: Obsolete Code is a track from The Foundations Of Eternal Sin, an album released by New York based electronic musician Salvatore Mercante, and released late last year on the wonderful electronic music label Castles in Space.
Here’s a few words from Salvatore explaining the background and inspiration for the record:
“The album is about humanity falling from grace and losing the pillars of what makes us human. The “Foundations” listed in each step bring us through that journey, starting with turning our backs on benevolence. Foundations two, five and seven being physical places along the journey that we stop at, the citadel (Foundation Seven) being the final stronghold of human empathy and understanding. It’s not about the end of days or the apocalypse, this is an internal struggle. Society will still move forward but with the loss of the human soul. This is something I fear every day – but there is beauty in the fall and a hope that we one day may recover to find what made us human in the first place.”
https://salvatore-cis.bandcamp.com/
It’s wonderful track, minimal, thoughtful and expressive. Some warm and mellow polyphonic synthesiser pads are drive forwards with percussive grooves complementing the track without getting in the way. There’s some tastefully utilised delay adding to the groove, and crunchy lo-fi loops utilised to build structure and add texture wehen required to move the track forwards…
Written and recorded in New York between November 2019 – January 2020 using various electronic artefacts and devices (Salvatore is reluctant to specify exactly what gear was used for the construction of the album), the record itself is pressed on ash grey vinyl. The mystical sleeve and insert artwork is by Nick Taylor.
