Chris Korda releases new album 'Apologize to the Future'. Watch the music video for 'Overshoot'

'Apologize to the Future' is out September 11th via Perlon. Watch the music video!

by Luciana Dias 2 - September 2020

Chris Korda is an internationally renowned multimedia artist whose work spans nearly thirty years and includes electronic music, digital and video art, performance art, conceptual art, and culture jamming.

Called "The Bob Dylan of Climate Change" by Groove Magazine, Korda has released music on labels such as Perlon, Mental Groove and International DJ Gigolo, in a variety of styles including electro, house, techno, ambient, jazz and neo-classical.

Korda's latest release, 'Apologize to the Future', is entirely dedicated to the issues of climate change, economic inequality, intergenerational injustice, human singularity and extinction that are all 21st century problems.

The album is heavy on electro-rap with techno and jazz influences, and is full of melancholy rhymes sung in a sort of robotic chorus.

The central theme is that future generations - if there are any - will bitterly resent us for leaving them on a destroyed planet.

Korda criticizes the selfishness of today's generations and describes the album's "militant existentialism" as an urgent antidote to the "alternative facts" of the post-truth era.

Interesting, right? Watch the official music video for 'Overshoot' from Chris Korda's new album below to get a feel for the vibe of this release:

The entire album was created and produced in a kind of complex polymeter, which means that multiple different signatures and time signatures are used simultaneously in the development of this work.

Korda pioneered this type of work usage in techno in the mid-1990s and developed custom music composition software to master this technique. The album's vocals were sung by a robotic choir.

According to Korda, "Mass extinction is underway, so it's time to move away from denial and instead move toward acceptance. People need to grow up and face reality, or we simply won't be around."

Conquest of Earth by sentient machines is also conceivable, and in Korda's view "they couldn't do much worse."

Our only hope for a habitable planet is to control our population explosion and consumption by embracing non-procreation and limits to growth.

Otherwise, we will be reduced to "a thin layer of oily rock," a grim reference to Earth's most severe extinction event, the Permian-Triassic.

The album 'Apologize to the Future' will be officially released on September 11th by Perlon Records. Buy the album here!

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