Richard Durand Releases 1st Album In 6 Years With "The Air We Breathe"

Allow us to catch you up… It’s been six years since Richard Durand despatched us his boldly high-concept ‘Richard Durand Versus The World’ album. It’s affordable to say that within the meantime his outlook on many points of life – each private – have shifted.

Over that interval he has circled the planet a dozen + instances, DJing, producing travelling, experiencing and life balancing. It’s additionally a timeframe inside which he skilled loss (by the passing of his long-time good friend & supervisor) and a close to sizeable shift in his trance music tastes. (The latter prompting him to depart the ‘In Search Of Sunrise’ combine collection).

Consequently Richard has been on album-pause whereas the frequencies realigned and life loops resolved. He at all times knew that when he returned to the medium (after 2009’s ‘Always The Sun’, 2011s ‘Wide Awake’ and 2012’s ‘R.D.V.T.W.’), it needed to be with a world-beater. To that finish, Durand has spent a lot of the final 14 months growing a brand new observe assortment, robust in each quantity (it options 19 productions) and sonic nature. It additionally bucks the present development of collab, collab, collab, its meeting being way more Richard’s personal singular tackle the trance sound. Where studio partnerships happen, artistically they achieve this organically. They happen with likeminded operators (Marco V, Mark Sherry, Sied van Riel, by means of instance) who share Richard’s imaginative and prescient of a more durable, extra propulsive clubbing tomorrow. Similarly vocal cuts are distinct of their rarity – Christina Novelli and Mike Schmidt (final heard on Cosmic Gate’s ‘Nothing Can Touch You Now’) make appearances all through its course.

The album is a launch whose essence is certain within the oneness of the hypnotic, marching and certainly flat-out entrancing character of trance. ‘The Air We Breathe’ is as a lot an exhalation as an inhalation for the Dutchman, and one with the unmistakable subtext of 1 musical period passing and the start of one other.