Artist : Paul Jebanasam
Album : Rites
Year : 2013
Genre : Ambient
Quality : 231kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint Stereo
Source : CD
Playtime : 0h 35m
Size : 62.12mb
Label : Subtext Recordings
Catalognr : SUBCD004
Tracklist:
01. Rites I 6:02
02. Rites II 7:54
03. Rites III 6:14
04. Rites IV 10:01
05. Rites V 5:27
Releasenotes:
Subtext presents the debut album from UK based Sri Lankan born artist Paul
Jebanasam. Rites brings together five settings of stark sonic poetry whose
underlying logic bridges the worlds of contemporary classical, metal, sacred
music and sound design.
The pieces explore the central themes of grace and savagery, contrasting
historical musical languages with the emergence of visceral sonics and immersive
tonality, overlaying the past on to the present and considering the
possibilities of sound as an eternal, universal medium embedded within the order
of civilisation. Rites takes its central inspiration from Jebanasam's
exploration of liturgical music whilst integrating aspects of his seminal
production work for the Bristol based Tectonic label and his defining role in
the re-emergence of Subtext in 2011.
Through the five ceremonial passages, Rites brings together a unified vision of
existence projected across human memory, merging the primal impulse of metal,
noise and richly textured drone with the tension and emotional narrative of
classical composition. The material summons these elements together, evoking a
machine of incalculable scale forging a world distinct of time where man's
transit and reckonings merge with a vast and unforeseeable purpose. The visible
and invisible streaming together into pools of chaos and sanctity, a landscape
stalked by the unknown, the human spirit uttering a desolate whisper to the
spirit of its ancestors.
Rites brings these classical themes together into an immersive statement that
considers the possibilities for contemporary composition to connect with new
sonic forms, exploring abstracted structures and sculptural synthesis, and
ultimately examining music's potential to converse with its earliest origins
whilst being embedded in the present.
Viola Tracks 3 & 5 - Phil Owen
Double Bass Track 3 - Joe Allen
Guitars Track 4 - Deej Dhariwal
Additional mixing - James Ginzburg
All tracks written and produced by Paul Jebanasam
Published by Multiverse Media Publishing
Manufactured and distributed by Cargo Records
Design by Alex Digard
Mastered at Multiverse
Additional Mastering by Matt Sampson
In Memory of Noel R. Jebanasam
http://www.pauljebanasam.com/rites/