Floating Points – Elaenia

Label: Pluto – FPLP01
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Repress
Country: UK
Released: 2021
Genre: Electronic, Jazz
Style: Contemporary Jazz, House

Elaenia is the debut album from UK-based artist Floating Points. Originally from Manchester, where he started out as a chorister at an early age – Sam Shepherd arrived in London for University, where he spent the next 5-years engineering Elaenia, all the while deejaying in cities across the globe and working towards his PhD in neuroscience.

Elaenia draws inspiration from classical, jazz, electronic music, soul and even Brazilian popular music,Elaenia – named after the bird of the same name – is the epitome of the forward-thinking Floating Points vision in 2015.

Elaenia is the culmination of all things Sam Shepherd: the founder of Eglo Records, the ensemblist, the producer and scientist. He even built a harmonograph from scratch to create the artwork for Elaenia, the end result created by using it and 2 fibre optic cables of 0.5 and 1.5mm diameters, which were connected to light sources responding to bass drum and white noise percussive sounds from the album track ‘For Marmish’.

1. Nespole
2. Silhouettes (I, II & III)
3. Elaenia
4. Argenté
5. Thin Air
6. For Marmish
7. Peroration Six