Patrick Sansone - Infinity Mirrors '2024

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Patrick Sansone is a Nashville based multi-instrumentalist, composer, music
producer, and photographer. He is also a member of Wilco, The Autumn Defense,
and Mellotron Variations. Infinity Mirrors is his first album as a solo artist.

Sansone’s interest in synthesizers goes back to his teens in the 1980s
when he was afforded the benefits and luxury of time, time to simply discover
and enjoy the pure pleasures of sound. Meridian, Mississippi in the mid-eighties
wasn’t exactly a synthesizer kind of town, but he did manage to get his
hands on a Korg Polysix and an Arp Axxe and spent solitary hours creating sounds
and blissing out. It was a foundational experience, one that has led to a life
long passion for collecting and playing vintage synthesizers. Some of
Pat’s favorites that were utilized in Infinity Mirrors include the Roland
Jupiter-8, MiniMoog Model D, and Sequential Circuits Prophet-10, as well as the
modern Mellotron D4000 and Teenage Engineering OP1.

The ideas behind what has become Infinity Mirrors have been brewing for several
years. Patrick’s plan had always been to use his ever growing stable of
synthesizers in some sort of project, but it wasn't until 2017 that these ideas
really started to come together. His goal was not to sit down and record an
album. It was more of a desire to engage with new creative processes, an effort
to recapture the spirit and energy he enjoyed when he first discovered
synthesizers. To accomplish this, Pat established a set of expectations around
which he would record. Central to his expectations was the idea that all of the
pieces would be spontaneously created. He decided the instruments needed to be
the ones to lead the recording sessions. Pat arranged several synthesizers from
his collection in the studio and set aside a series of evenings for recording.
This would allow each composition to retain its own unique mood and identity.
Pat simply entered the room and allowed his instruments to draw him in. There
was no planning ahead. It was simply improvisation in its purest form, what he
has called “sonic sand- painting.” And as a result, four of the six
pieces on Infinity Mirrors were recorded during these sessions.

Because of Pat’s involvement in other projects, as well as a demanding
tour schedule, the results from the initial recording sessions sat on
Pat’s digital shelf until 2021. It was while on a night drive from
Atlanta to Nashville that Pat decided to revisit his efforts, and it was upon
that return listen that he felt a spark. The music spoke to him in very distinct
ways. He felt both connected to and outside of himself as he listened. The
experience was striking enough that he decided he would eventually share this
music with others.

A few months later a friend gifted Pat a photography book, John Pfahl’s
Altered Landscapes. Pat, a photographer himself, opened to a random page and was
taken aback by the image, Pfahl’s “Salt Lake Angles.” There
was a rush of excitement as Pat heard an inner voice proclaim, “This is
the cover to your unfinished album!” Inspired by the image, additional
compositions were recorded, and the pieces of Infinity Mirrors started to fall
together. Pfahl had unfortunately passed in 2020, but with some help Sansone got
in touch with the photographer’s estate. Serendipitously, the caretakers
were already familiar with Sans one as supporters of Wilco’s Solid Sound
Festival, as well as his own photography work, and permission to use “Salt
Lake Angles” as the cover to Infinity Mirrors was granted. 

Tracklist:
1.01 - Patrick Sansone - Measures (7:05) 
1.02 - Patrick Sansone - Laughing Abyss (8:04) 
1.03 - Patrick Sansone - Dream Molecule (6:43) 
1.04 - Patrick Sansone - Jupiter Removed (6:45) 
1.05 - Patrick Sansone - Phosphenes (7:18) 
1.06 - Patrick Sansone - Press to Null (7:25)

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