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Under the name
Gossamer, Los Angeles-based producer
Evan Reiner creates intricate, atmospheric electronic music and experimental hip-hop, often marked by ghostly voices and obsessively recorded found sounds and acoustic instruments. Similar to artists affiliated with L.A. music collectives like WeDidIt and
Brainfeeder,
Gossamer gravitates toward fractured, bass-heavy downtempo beats, but occasionally produces more uptempo, abstract techno/house tracks, or straightforward ambient music. After debuting with two EPs in 2012,
Gossamer's debut full-length,
Automaton, appeared in 2015. This was followed by
Imperishable, an ambient cassette released in 2018.
Reiner grew up in Los Angeles with roots in hardcore and metal as well as N.Y.C. hip-hop, and began practicing jazz guitar as a teenager. After studying at Boston's prestigious Berklee School of Music, he discovered electronic music and began capturing sounds and arranging them on his computer.
Gossamer's self-titled debut, a brief four-track EP of murky downtempo beats, arrived in 2012 via the Melt. This was followed a year later by the 12" single "Chaino"/"Ab-Mass" (released by Jass), a more house-leaning record that featured a remix by Time Wharp. Once this was released,
Reiner began working on his debut full-length, traveling across the country and even to Japan in order to find unusual sounds.
Automaton finally surfaced in 2015 on
Innovative Leisure, home of the similarly minded
Nosaj Thing. He continued collecting sounds from across the globe, and returned in 2018 with an ambient album titled
Imperishable, which featured co-production by
Sonny DiPerri. ~ Paul Simpson