Artist : Mountains
Album : Air Museum
Year : 2011
Genre : Ambient
Quality : 246kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint Stereo
Source : CD
Playtime : 0h 43m
Size : 79.94mb
Label : Thrill Jockey
Catalognr : THRILL274
Tracklist:
01. January 17 5:09
02. Thousand Square 5:17
03. Newsprint 4:49
04. Sequel 7:34
05. Blue Lanterns On East Oxford 5:19
06. Backwards Crossover 7:01
07. Live At The Triple Door 8:16
Releasenotes:
Air Museum blurs the lines between acoustic and electronic music even more
without sacrificing melody or the delicacy of their sound. It is an album of
firsts. It was the first album that the acoustic instruments were not processed
via a computer. Instead, the processing of the instrumentation (acoustic and
electric guitar, cello, accordion, piano, bass etc.) was done using a variety of
pedals, modular synths, and other analog techniques. While acoustic instruments
were used extensively, the album manifests itself sonically as their most
ôelectronicö record yet. Air Museum is also their first record that was made in
a studio. Working in the studio expanded their possibilities, giving more room
for experimentation. While much of the album was recorded in real time with
minor editing, the band took the opportunity to utilize the studio as an
instrument of sorts, investing a great amount of time in customizing their
approach to post-production. Air Museum was recorded at Telescope Recording, in
Brooklyn, New York, between December 2010 and January 2011, with the exception
of ôBlue Lanterns On East Oxfordö which was recorded in Philadelphia in the
spring of 2010 and ôLive At The Triple Doorö, an edit of a live performance that
took place in Seattle at the 2009 Decibel Festival.
Since returning from European and American tours for Choral, Mountains has been
concentrating on the assembly of new systems to create and perform without the
use of a computer. Air Museum is the first result of these efforts. It is less
reliant on long linear crescendos, focusing more on rhythmic interplay and
dynamic changes. Like their previous work it retains the energy and the
expansiveness born of improvisation.
Mountains is also taking a new approach to their live performance, utilizing
many of the techniques they developed while working on Air Museum. For their new
live set, Mountains has created a patch that will enable their electronics to
sync up at various times, so while the musicians react to one another musically,
given the right parameters, the machines can react to one another as well.
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