Mark Solotroff "In Search Of Total Placelessness" CD

Mark Solotroff’s new album, In Search of Total Placelessness, is an exploration of the transient, the ephemeral, and the interplay of difference that defines our existence. Solotroff created this album to dissolve the boundaries of traditional spatial and temporal structures, inviting listeners into a realm where meaning is constantly deferred and redefined.

Each track embodies a fluid state of flux, resonating with the raw chill of analog synthesizers and the atmospheric depth of transmuted location recordings that Solotroff made in Chicago, Milan, and Venice. These places, with their distinct sounds and ambiances, weave an intricate tapestry that grounds the music in reality, yet the album's soundscape transcends these origins, creating an otherworldly experience.

The music is a meditation on the interplay between the symbolic and the unreal, creating an atmosphere thick with introspection and foreboding. This duality of rootedness and ethereality reflects tension of achieving placelessness and escaping the confines of specific locations and emotional states.

This album marks a reflective journey through transitory spaces, capturing the essence of passing thoughts and vanishing certainties. Solotroff's bruised sounds transport you to a place where music and environment converge, creating a caustically elegant soundscape. It proposes a listening experience where the familiar transforms into the new and the unseen, embodying the tension between the known and the unknown.

In Search of Total Placelessness encourages a reexamination of conventional perceptions and an embrace of the multiplicity of meaning. It allows listeners to drift into the deep, immersive layers of sound becoming unfamiliar, which explore the spaces between moments, where one may find unconventional beauty in the momentary and the ever-changing.

Recorded in Chicago, Milan, and Venice
Music + Design by Mark Solotroff
Mastered by Collin Jordan at The Boiler Room, Chicago