Rich Aucoin Shares New Single "Pure," Announces North American Tour Dates

After the success of Rich Aucoin's 2022 album, the Juno nominated Synthetic Season 1, Aucoin has returned with another synth odyssey in the form of "Pure," a 6-minute masterclass in experimental synthwave.

‘Pure’ weaves a textural Tame Impala meets Todd Terje fabric while introducing the phasers of a Daft Punk track and a persistent hook provided by a classic Moog Model D synth. The track envelops over a sample created on a Lowrey Genie organ that Aucoin happened upon at an Air BnB and created the big Justice’s ‘Genesis’-sounding wall-of-sound bombast.

About the song, Rich says: "I was at this AirBnB that had this old Lowrey Genie organ; the kind. with a synthesizer built-in. I sat down and played it for a bit until I found this great bombast sound that reminded me of Justice's brilliant Cross opener Genesis. So I recorded that along with its arpeggiator and that became the beginning of both this track as well as my earlier released song We're In It Together. The two. tracks are quite different from one another which is a nice recent reminder for me how every time someone sits down to make something, it can go a different direction even with the same initial starting points."