“Dawn,” the opening track from Jack Prest’s upcoming album Movement, unfolds with a quiet, glowing optimism. Centered around a gently ascending Moog arpeggio, the piece feels like first light slowly spreading across a landscape. Jason Noble’s clarinet drifts in and out like birdsong, while Clarie Edwardes’ processed orchestral percussion and Ben Freeman’s piano add both gravity and lift. There’s a softness to the pacing, but also a sense of clarity, each element moving with intention, hovering in that space between the organic and the synthetic. It’s a graceful entry point into the final chapter of Prest’s long-running The Risk of Hyperbole project, which began back in 2021.
The accompanying video, directed by Ben Wilson, mirrors that same tension between fluid form and digital abstraction. Shot on a lo-fi, high-speed, slow-motion camera, a male figure floats and twists through strobing light and digital haze, his movements alternating between sculpture and signal. Prest’s process of recording acoustic material and reshaping it through layers of processing is echoed in the visual language: physical gestures are softened and distorted, rendered uncanny. There’s something quietly mystical in the way sound and image interact here, as if both are reaching toward some unspoken threshold. “Dawn” doesn’t announce its arrival, it emerges, full of breath, and leaves a glow in its place.
The Risk of Hyperbole Vol. 3 will be released later this year.
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