Artist : Myrmyr
Album : Fire Star
Year : 2011
Genre : Ambient
Quality : 231kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint Stereo
Source : CD
Playtime : 0h 38m
Size : 68.22mb
Label : Under The Spire
Catalognr : spire041
Tracklist:
01. Hot Snow I 3:32
02. Hot Snow II 3:38
03. Hot Snow III 5:53
04. Fire Serpent's Lull 8:11
05. Thunder Stars 8:04
06. Golden Ashes 9:38
Releasenotes:
Really beautiful new album from Oakland duo Agnes Szelag and Marielle Jakobsons,
casting soaring chamber compositions in perfect ambient space. Painted from a
bright but controlled palette of cello, plucked violins, pianos, bells, harps
and electronics, and shot through with subtle vocal interventions, Fire Star is
the follow up to Mymyr's acclaimed Digitalis LP The Amber Sea. This one was
recorded during a snowstorm on Shasta Mountain on April 6-9, 2010, and once you
know that it's hard not to hear it in the music - which seems in thrall to
nature but also wary of its destructive, disruptive power. The atmosphere is
largely melancholic, then, but the music roams all over the place, from the
mischievous minimalism of 'Hot Snow 1' to the steampowered pomp and circumstance
of 'Thunder Star '. This is a very, very fine album, and if like us you're a
sucker for the moody string-led romanticism of Hildur Gudnadottir, Esmerine, Max
Richter, Marcus Fjellstrom, Johann Johannsson et al, you owe it to yourself to
check it out. Highly recommended.
http://underthespire.co.uk/album/myrmyr-fire-star