Soramimi: experimental electronic composer, producer, sound designer, Dusk Notes label co-owner, live PA performer

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An ambient electronic album shaped by time, revision, and emotional reflection.

JRMR, the Puerto Rico based solo artist, releases x-istential, an 8 track album that unfolds with patience and intent. Built over two to three years, the record reflects a long process of revision, adjustment, and refinement. Each version moved closer to a unified listening experience, one designed to feel continuous rather than segmented. The result is an album that values flow over immediacy and mood over spectacle.

Working within ambient and experimental electronic music, JRMR focuses on subtle movement and gradual change. The tracks rarely announce themselves. Instead, they shift almost imperceptibly, allowing details to surface over time. Synth textures bend and dissolve, rhythms appear briefly before receding, and melodies often feel implied rather than stated. The influence of artists like Arca and Oneohtrix Point Never can be felt in the album’s abstract structures and emotional restraint, though x-istential never reads as imitation.

The album’s central theme revolves around emotional turbulence and the effort required to live alongside it. Rather than dramatizing these feelings, JRMR treats them as ongoing conditions. The music mirrors that idea. Sounds drift between clarity and distortion, stability and unease, suggesting the way inner states can quietly pull attention away from everyday life. There is no clear resolution offered. Acceptance, not closure, seems to be the guiding principle.

Because of its steady pacing and careful sequencing, x-istential works best as a full listen. Individual tracks contribute to a larger arc, reinforcing the sense that this is a single work rather than a collection of moments. It is an album shaped by time, both in its creation and in how it asks to be heard.

With x-istential, JRMR offers a measured and introspective statement, one that reflects the value of sitting with uncertainty and allowing emotions to exist without explanation. JRMR closes the album not with answers, but with space.