The Shadow of The Singularity: Dean De Benedictis SALVAGING THE FUTURE on Spotted Peccary Music

De Benedictis has spent decades climbing mountains—literally and musically—to find the places where his music lives. He doesn’t make music about landscapes, he carries his studio into them: Mt. Adams, Mt. Saint Helens, Mt. Hood, Mt. Shasta and beyond. His music is inspired by and created in deserts, coastlines, mountain ranges, abandoned rooms, airports, and homes.

Crafted from unreleased material gathered across decades, the new album reflects an effort to reclaim time itself — to gather fragments from different eras and reimagine them as one continuous, living gesture. “The idea is set in the future,” reveals De Benedictis, “during the coming singularity, and all planets and celestial bodies are now shifting and morphing and changing as that same singularity.”

The album took form through years of travel, upheaval, technical struggle, and persistence. The music itself was shaped through a deeply personal and often demanding process, using custom sample libraries, re-synthesis, layered processing, and older computer systems treated as distinct creative instruments.

All music composed, performed, edited, designed, and conceptualized by Dean De Benedictis. Production locations were scattered throughout the US west coast but based primarily in Thousand Oaks and Santa Monica, CA. Extra recorded musicians, in addition to Apple loops, include: Lara De Benedictis (vocals), D’Von Charley (vocals and native flute), Nichole Michelle Jones (vocals), Lisa Claire Mitterer (vocals), Phil Williams (electric guitar). The album was mastered by Howard Givens at Spotted Peccary Studios, NW, Portland, OR; creative design by Daniel Pipitone at Spotted Peccary Studios, NE, Ligonier, PA.

Salvaging the Future (SPM-1703) is available as CD and for streaming and downloading, including high resolution studio master formats at https://spottedpeccary.com/shop/salvaging-the-future/

Tracklist:

1 My Love Is An Extinction Event 06:10

2 The Outer Links 06:31

3 Voca 03:35

4 They Fought To Sway 07:18

5 Urband Glacier Fund 06:27

6 ASMR Tragedy Lines 06:44

7 Salvaging My Story 07:12

8 Future Incandescence 06:32

9 All The Wild 04:27

10 Born Of Flight 07:09

11 Our Story Survives Collectively 09:15

Links:

Smartlink: https://orcd.co/salvaging-the-future

Dean De Benedictis Official Website: https://www.deandebenedictis.com/

Spotted Peccary Album Page: https://spottedpeccary.com/shop/salvaging-the-future/

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/6BCSEcveCvJsBbz2kyAZql?si=tNtm3OP1TQaEavJU9Z7PqQ

Bandcamp: https://ambientelectronic.bandcamp.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/deandebenedictis

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spottedpeccary

About Dean De Benedictus

Dean De Benedictis’ music is the result of his will to tie an essential common thread together between opposing genres and mentalities, as well as draw from them a natural sense of emotion, expanse and mystery. This Southern California-based artist, also known to the electronic ambient community as SURFACE 10, has always utilized his interest in a variety of styles and cultures to enrich the quality of his musical expression. Like many other artists, much of Dean’s music was composed as a dedication and utility for his own life experiences one example is how many of his pieces were actually created to take with him and listen to at specific locations (deserts, canyons, jungles, mountain regions, coastal regions, and unpopular-unpopulated areas), thus permanently marking the region with the music in his memory. He aspires to communicate a similar functionality for the experiences of his listeners. https://spottedpeccary.com/artists/dean-de-benedictis/ and https://www.deandebenedictis.com/

About Spotted Peccary Music

Portland-based Spotted Peccary Music is North America’s finest independent record label with a focus on deep, vast and introspective soundscapes. For four decades, the artists of Spotted Peccary have been on a mission to develop, produce, publish and release ultra-high-quality, deep-listening experiences that engage the listener and exceed expectations. Every release is carefully prepared in a variety of high-quality formats from MP3 to high-res studio masters.