Prolific electronic music producer and glitch-hop popularizer Guillermo Scott Herren, better known as Prefuse 73, is about to release his second full-length record this year (this being the first one). After self-admittedly putting the project off for two years, Herren is debuting a new alias, Reto A Ichi, with a double album called The Lapse of Exchange/Alone Moving Often, out via Berlin’s !K7 on November 2. Four singles promoting the release, “No Juntos,” “It’s Her Birthday,” “Criminality,” and “No Contra” are available to stream now.
Of course, Herren has done this before, and not just once: in addition to P23, the producer has put out music as Piano Overlord, Ahmad Szabo, Delarosa & Asora, Savath & Savalas, and a few other monikers (both alone and with collaborators). Reto A Ichi was inspired by the Japanese film and TV franchise Zatōichi, which apparently Herren got to know through a 1971 Spanish-language translation. The album is also a result of a particular change of environment: The Lapse of Exchange was recorded in the heart of New York’s busy Chinatown, from where Herren relocated to a remote stretch of the countryside to pen Alone Moving Often. What he discovered in the process was that “one can be isolated anywhere,” ultimately producing an album that deals with silence and negative space in a much more direct fashion that what past releases as Prefuse 73 have gotten us used to.
The Lapse of Exchange/Alone Moving Often can be pre-ordered here, and you can listen to those four tracks available from the album below:
The Lapse of Exchange tracklisting:
01. These Times Are Closing
02. Gambling In The Snow
03. Let The Pianos Freeze
04. No Juntos
05. It’s Her Birthday
06. A Sword In The Rain
07. Zato Lullaby
08. All Regrets
09. The Leaning Tower Of Our Leaders
10. Tuesday Always Awful
11. Percussions, Hearts And Airs
12. Broad Plant Pt. 2
13. These Times Are Changing
Alone Moving Often tracklisting:
01. Criminality
02. The World According To West 50th Pt. 1
03. So Contra
04. Pforever Reto
05. The World According To West 50th Pt. 2
06. Duration Meditation
07. Everything In The Air
08. Magazine PM
09. Alone Moving Often
10. Noise Counter Melody
11. Mountainside Hillside
12. Ghost Arpeggio
13. I Think I’m Calm. I Think I’m Dry
14. Monday Be The Worst
More about: Prefuse 73, Reto A Ichi
