Elaenia (album)

Elaenia
Studio album by
Floating Points
ReleasedNovember 6, 2015 (2015-11-06)
GenreElectronic
Length42:28
LabelLuaka Bop (US)
Pluto (UK)
ProducerSam Shepherd
Floating Points chronology
Elaenia
(2015) 		Reflections – Mojave Desert
(2017)
Singles from Elaenia
  1. "Silhouettes (I, II & III)"
    Released: August 25, 2015
  2. "Nespole"
    Released: September 23, 2015
  3. "Peroration Six"
    Released: October 19, 2015

Elaenia is the debut studio album by British electronic musician Sam Shepherd, released under his alias Floating Points on 6 November 2015 by Shepherd's own Pluto label and Luaka Bop. Shepherd created the artwork for the album by connecting fibre-optic cables to a home made harmonograph.[1] Shepherd had originally conceived the album to contain only one track but was advised against the idea and eventually cut the music into seven songs.[2] Elaenia's title track was named when Shepherd experienced a dream about a bird that became engulfed in a forest after he had been reading the speculative fiction novel Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by American neuroscientist David Eagleman.[3][4]

  1. ^ "Floating Points announces debut album Elaenia". Fact. 25 August 2015. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  2. ^ Titmus, Stephen (3 November 2015). "Floating Points: Extraordinary lengths". Resident Advisor. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  3. ^ Hutchinson, Kate (29 October 2015). "I DJ, therefore I am: Floating Points on musical experiments and marathon sets". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 December 2015.
  4. ^ Dombal, Ryan (14 September 2015). "Floating Points: Braindance". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 17 December 2015.