{"product_id":"marrak-excursions","title":"marrak - excursions","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003eLondon-raised, Sydney-based marrak is a producer, collage artist and photographer. Across mediums his work leans into texture, balancing control and chaos. From sampling jazz records to capturing field recordings, these raw elements are pulled apart, resampled, and run through generative patches until they transform. He works from a place of exploring, not arriving - crafting sounds experimentally, comfortable not knowing what happens next. The results are in constant motion: weightless, then rhythmic, then somewhere else entirely.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Built over several years, this album grew through a process of collecting and rearranging. Field recordings anchor many of the tracks at a specific time or place, while sampling, whether from vinyl records, synthesisers, or earlier recordings, provides the raw material for transformation. Resampling became a way forward, allowing sounds to evolve beyond their original form. Made with a shifting collection of hardware and software, the album is in a sense part archival, part dream: interconnected pieces assembled from fragments, memories, and discoveries, familiar materials reassembled into something new.\" - marrak\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003emarrak's debut album \u003cem\u003eexcursions\u003c\/em\u003e is a culmination of ten\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eyears of this instinct, finally settled. It features field recordings from south London, Bristol, and Sydney. Opening track excursion05 sets the tone: ethereal, half-submerged samples that ease you in rather than announce themselves. detached is hypnotic, pulling you in before taking a completely new direction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSlow Listen presents \u003cem\u003eexcursions\u003c\/em\u003e on cassette with full play sides, mixed as a single 30-minute playback so each side runs straight through. Available on jade green cassette with an o-card outer sleeve. Tapping each tape with a smartphone unlocks a digital space where marrak's photography, artwork and album meet: photographs break down into fields of light-responsive particles, driven in real time by the music. Frequency and transient data shape brightness, motion, and the timing of each transition. The result is a visual that keeps evolving and looks different each time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tralbumData tralbum-about\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003ereleased August 7, 2026\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"credits-label\"\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch4 class=\"credits-label\"\u003ecredits\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"credits-label\"\u003eAlbum\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"credits-label\"\u003eWritten \u0026amp; Recorded by marrak (2016–2026)\u003cbr\u003eMastered by Rob Colquhoun\u003cbr\u003eArtwork \u0026amp; Design by Rob Colquhoun\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDigital Space\u003cbr\u003eMusic by marrak\u003cbr\u003ePhotography by Rob Colquhoun\u003cbr\u003eCreative technologies by Ben Archer-Lee, Slow Listen Studios\u003c\/h5\u003e","brand":"Slow Listen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54942525194569,"sku":"SL-E-LEC","price":12.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0949\/1732\/9225\/files\/front_1200x1200_e7e8fa40-4c4d-44b2-a48d-089d313acb04.jpg?v=1785137546","url":"https:\/\/slowlisten.uk\/products\/marrak-excursions","provider":"SLOW LISTEN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}