Artist.......: Tallesen
Album........: Stills Lit Through
Label........: Software
Genre........: electronic
Catnr........: Sft050
Source.......: CD (LP)
Rip.date.....: 2014-11-09
Str.date.....: 2014-11-11
Quality......: 243kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://www.softwarelabel.net
track title time
1. Blue Stills 3:44
2. Glenticast 1:43
3. Chime Ever 2:48
4. Motion Past Shine 4:13
5. Take Flash East 0:40
6. Emmel 2:26
7. Set Red, Seize Grey 2:19
8. Strike Silver, Love Green 3:26
9. Plasticized Fsa 8:00
10. Illusion Crossed Phase 2:18
11. Landmark Rituals 3:03
12. Teal Spot Focus 2:26
13. Court Sight 3:57
14. Eveibury 4:17
15. Line Cross Shore 3:08
16. Night Bloom 4:08
Runtime 52:36
Size 92.75
Release Notes:
tills Lit Through offers the first comprehensive body of work from musician and
visual artist Tallesen.
Hailing from the Hudson Valley of New York, Tallesen û born Cayman Johnson û
describes Stills as a response to the ôcontinuous flexibility of the physical
setting by the additive of sound.ö A reference to his joyful erasure of the
distinction between music and experience.
The twelve songs of Stills Lit Through conjure an eidolon of melodies painted
with watercolor brushstrokes both calm (ôGlenticastö) and frenetic (ôEmmelö). To
our ears, this closely characterizes JohnsonÆs work as a visual artist.
The collection when taken as a whole is wonderfully consistent. We hear echoes
of AutechreÆs corporal maneuvers (bass as lead voice, plasticity of foreground
vs. background), but, if you dig out the provenance of JohnsonÆs nom de plum,
you really start to understand how the melodic through-lines of the record
operate on a more illustrative level.
What appears to you as a macro-level core æfeelingÆ about the record is
illusively varied, consisting of insanely lush song nodes that subtly and
endlessly rotate and shift. It is a music that is both ultra beautiful (ôStrike
Silver, Love Greenö) and invested in a core belief dealing with the materiality
of musical sound itself (ôPlasticized Fsaö). ItÆs not the house in which
melodies are stored, itÆs the crypt of inspiration from which melodies emerge
from.
Rhythmically, Stills encourages ephemera towards the creation of a seductively
creaky, silvery universe with an unreliable sense of gravity. The result is
hallucinatory in that the album comprehensively experiences like volumes among
volumes of things change, but in half-speed. ôThe music is saturated with
information for it to remain flexible to its surroundings,ö describes Cayman, an
ode to feeling ôambiance with a modern degree of attention.ö
Thus we enter the world of Stills Lit Through, a comprehensive portrait of young
Cayman JohnsonÆs enigmatic, sensual world-building music. Stills Lit Through is
available November 11, 2014 via Software Recording Co. on LP, CD and digital
formats.