Portable

''Version'', Portable's second full-length album, is based on field recordings that offer blurred glimpses of the jungle or a crackling campfire. For these snippets, recorded sometime during the sixties, seventies or eighties and at various locations spread over the vast African continent, someone somewhere once beat their drum, as had been done for generations past, and someone else held a microphone. Abrahams has taken these ur-beats, preserved for posterity, and used modern audio software to digitally rework and filter them, thus lending them new shine, but preserving their old heritage, their lore. Like genetic material Abrahams has imbued even the tiniest slivers of this album with both futuristic and archaic elements.