Ahead of Floating Points‘ (Sam Shepherd) new album Cascade (Sept 13th) he has today released the new track ‘Ocotillo‘.

A slow build, it begins with contributions from Austrian-Ethiopian harpist Miriam Adefris – who Shepherd first collaborated with on Mere Mortals, his first ballet score for the San Francisco Ballet – and the gentle resonance of a clavichord Shepherd inherited from his great aunt, before rumbling into a thrilling dancefloor conclusion.

The second half of ‘Ocotillo’ is all shimmering, shuddering pulses and digital sparks that give off a sense of self-generative organic evolution at hyperspeed. The jittery tactile nature of the synths and programming is Shepherd at his finest and continues to set the album up as one of the most anticipated electronic releases of 2024.

The video clip is an Alive Painting by Akiko Nakayama continuing his ongoing collaboration with the Tokyo-based artist.

The new album is being pitched as Shepherd getting back to his roots, his press release positioning it as a record forged in an adolescence spent in Manchester’s clubs and record shops, discovering for the first time the mind-expanding (and emotion-purging) power of electronic music in all its forms.