David August David August X Ron Trent X Rafael Anton Irisarri

Two tracks from David August’s album D’Angelo are given two radically different takes from two titans of their fields, on David’s first official remix EP. The creation and story behind the original album showed a deeply personal process, and these new interpretations feel natural, and in tune with David’s original ethos. Ron Trent reconstructs and extends Elysian Fields into a slowly evolving soulful house jam. Insistent drums, blissful guitar and piano themes are all perfectly interlocked, with David’s plaintive vocals reconstituted into a textured layer flowing underneath and above.

On the flip side, Rafael Anton Irisarri deconstructs Florence and rebuilds it into something grander, even more filmic than the original. Sparse, dripping piano, warbling, fizzing drones, and haunting spectres of voices phasing throught the mists bring to mind distant memories of a city, removed from any conception of time and space. Trying to remember.