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Greg Davis - Somnia
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Year :: 2004
Label :: Kranky
Cat No :: krank074
Genre :: Avantgarde
Tracks :: 06
Size :: 77,7 MB
Source :: CDDA
Bitrate :: VBRKBps
Rel. Date :: 05/11/2004
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Greg Davis has made recorded appearances on numerous
singles and compilations, played around the world and
is best known for his two albums on the Carpark
label; Arbor and Curling Pond Woods. Those two
albums, as impressive and well received as they are,
don╣t tell the whole story of Davis' omnivorous
interest in music (he studied composition and jazz
studies at DePaul University and composition at the
New England Conservatory of Music) and considerable
abilities. Somnia collects drone-oriented material
Greg Davis has been working over the last two to
three years with the final track, "Mirages (version
2)" being a recording from spring 2004 using a schaaf
punchcard music box and computer. Each track features
a single instrument (bowed psaltery, acoustic guitar,
harmonica, fender rhodes, magnus chord organ) played
by Davis and then filtered through a computer. The
tones that come out of the process bear little
immediate resemblance to the instrument of origin,
taking on extended and diffuse forms of their own.
Having performed behind a laptop and toured with his
own band, Greg Davis is uniquely situated, in a scene
full of point and clickers, to create music that
actually synthesizes and doesn╣t merely recombine.
Somnia is a product of his longstanding interest in
both organic sounds (as created by instruments played
in realtime) and the transformational possibilities
of computers. An early version of "Clouds As Edges"
was Davis' first release as a single on the Grounded
label in 2001. Somnia focuses on one area of Greg
Davis' many musical interests and widens his earlier
laptop work as it reflects back on the instrumental
textures used in his most recent solo work.
Greg Davis plays: bowed psaltery (1) gibson six
string acoustic guitar (2) toy harmonica (3) fender
rhodes electric piano (4) magnus chord organ (5)
schaaf punch card music box (6) and computer
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[01] Greg Davis - Archer [07:17]
[02] Greg Davis - Clouds As Edges (edit) [10:49]
[03] Greg Davis - Diaphonous (edit) [07:54]
[04] Greg Davis - Campestral (version two) [22:15]
[05] Greg Davis - Furnace [04:02]
[06] Greg Davis - Mirages (version two) [07:38]
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