Artist : Loscil
Album : Sea Island
Year : 2014
Genre : Electronic
Quality : 216kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint Stereo
Source : CD
Playtime : 1h 12m
Size : 118.8mb
Label : Kranky
Catalognr : KRANK191
Tracklist:
01. Ahull 6:38
02. In Threes 5:57
03. Bleeding Ink 6:38
04. Sea Island Murders 8:26
05. Iona 8:34
06. Holding Pattern 6:11
07. Catalina 1943 6:34
08. Angle Of Loll 5:51
09. Sturgeon Bank 6:00
10. En Masse 5:23
11. Angle Of List 6:45
Releasenotes:
Sea Island is a collection of new material composed and recorded over the past
two years. While many of these compositions were performed live extensively
prior to recording, others were constructed in the studio and are being heard
for the first time here. Musically, the album represents a range of
compositional approaches. Murky, densely textured depths of sound are explored
with subtle pulses and pings woven within, contrasted with composed or
improvised moments of acoustic instrumentation making a move into the
foreground. Certain tracks on Sea Island such as album opener Ahull make rhythm
their focus by exploring subtle polyrhythms and investigating colliding moments
of repetition and variation.
Though staunchly electronic at its core, instruments such as vibraphone and
piano make appearances, and layers of live musicality, improvisation and detail
appear in the looped and layered beds of manipulated sound recordings. A varied
cast of players appear in the loscil "ensemble", some familiar collaborators
from the past such as Jason Zumpano on rhodes and Josh Lindstrom on vibraphone,
and others new to the mix such as Fieldhead's Elaine Reynolds who provides
layered violin on Catalina 1943, and Ashley Pitre contributing vocals on
Bleeding Ink. Seattle pianist Kelly Wyse, who collaborated with loscil on his
2013 edition of piano-centric reworks Intervalo, performs on the tracks Sea
Island Murders and En Masse.
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