Departing in Descent, by bvdub & James Bernard

Departing in Descent

by bvdub & James Bernard

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1.	Preludes in Parting 10:41	buy track
2.	Stares in Sapphires 08:57	buy track
3.	Harmonies in Hesitation -feat. marine eyes- 11:22	buy track
4.	Interactions in Isolation 08:45	buy track
5.	Halvings in Hipnosis 10:49	buy track
6.	Strategies in Struggle 09:33	buy track
7.	Lamentations in Light 08:55	buy track
8.	Formulas in Fathoms 10:13	buy track

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Digital version only - Originally released on Past Inside The Present.

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Departing in Descent is the first collaboration between James Bernard and bvdub – though, unbeknownst to each other, their lives had traveled silently side-by-side for decades. Officially beginning, perhaps, with Brock's purchase of James' seminal Atmospherics in 1994 after it was mistakenly stocked in his local house record store, what was and always will be his favorite ambient album of all time connected, as abstractly as possible, two people whose journeys through both music and life had been running in secret parallel for as long as either had ever known.

From their lives as ravers deep in the underground, one in NY, one in SF, to years of personal and musical struggles that may as well been written by the same pen, their paths ran in tandem, unknowingly, for virtually their entire lives before one fateful night in LA found them in the same place at the same time – and it all became clear. What had happened. And what would happen as a result.

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released January 20, 2023

Originally released October 21, 2022 on Past Inside the Present

Written and produced by bvdub & James Bernard
Additional production and vocals on
‘Harmonies In Hesitation’ by marine eyes
Mixed and mastered by Brock Van Wey
Additional mixing by James Bernard
Photography by Cynthia Bernard
Layout by zakè

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