Auto Pilot by Matthew Dotson
Auto Pilot is a deeply personal album constructed with material dating back to the late 90's and across several locations in Los Angeles and elsewhere. The theme of place, in fact, figures very heavily into the album as over half of the titles are named after specific locations rendered diffuse via context. Transit in general and also specifically the 5 corridor from East LA to San Diego figures into the album as well. A transit not only of place but also of time in which the present collapses into the past and the future seems to recede by some force of nature or optical illusion. A gestalt in which the edges are impossible to perceive. The tyranny of architecture....of the voice-over...of the robo-call. The inability to reclaim what has passed but via cassette tapes. The ache of lost futures.
Above all I am interested in that which is not 2020 but along the path to something simultaneously forwards and backwards. Restless, hungry spirits on Auto Pilot along the libidinal highways.
Tracklist
| 1. | Citadel | 4:30 |
| 2. | Revolution No. 90 | 5:07 |
| 3. | Elation | 3:16 |
| 4. | Forge | 4:48 |
| 5. | Gage | 3:30 |
| 6. | Concrete Collapse | 4:59 |
| 7. | Substation No. 14 | 2:55 |
Credits
Vocals on Concrete Collapse by Dylan McKenzie
Mastering by Daniel Eaton
Design by Ryan Qualls
License
All rights reserved.Tags
Matthew Dotson is a producer, composer and performer of electronic music. He is primarily focused on the emotional/perceptual transformations that accompany shifting blocks of continuous sound.
Auto Pilot will be his last album under his full name. It is a collection of archival material stitched together through a telescope of lost time.