Frank Cogliano is a Brooklyn-based electronic composter and producer who recently shared his new album Computers of The World. Influences include electronic great like Boards of Canada, Tycho, Brian Eno and Aphex Twin, which should give you some idea of the gift of sound that awaits you on the album, which was written in the weeks leading up to the lockdown in New York City in January/February 2020.
A great example of the treasures of the album can be found in the single “Pet Ghost”. Clocking in shy of two minutes, the gorgeous electronic piece makes use of every single second and provides a gorgeous soundscape that warms the soul. While so many artists of the genre expand the sound to almost unwieldy runtimes, it’s refreshing for an artist to deliver their mission statement in such a compact form.
Find the song available to check out below, where we have also included a quote from Cogliano about the making of the album. The record can be streamed and bought on vinyl as well at his Bandcamp.
“I wrote this album in the weeks leading up to the lockdown in New York City in January – February 2020. The last moments before the world had changed. And I was thinking about my early years recording on 4 track Tascam and a Yamaha keyboard and a Squier Strat, and thinking about that time, when consumer computers and dial up internet were shaping and about to change the world. So I am digesting all of this nostalgia and finding sounds from old VHS recordings and experimenting with video art on an old Sony TV with an analog video synth and I came up with this album. A mashup of all my different interests, with the only overall rule that it has to sound good to me, whether it jumps from genre to genre or not. Playing with the conversation between technology, analog circuitry and organic instruments, in a way that is pleasant for me to listen to. A soundtrack to a film goes through many moments and styles so I imagine the album in a similar way, creating a general vibe without being boring. I find single genre albums to be painfully boring.
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