Artist : Damian Valles
Album : Skeleton Taxa
Year : 2011
Genre : Ambient
Quality : 232kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint Stereo
Source : CD
Playtime : 0h 49m
Size : 86.86mb
Label : Drifting Falling
Catalognr : DRIFTING022
Tracklist:
01. Bones Made Out Of Bone 4:28
02. Storm Doors 3:36
03. Collapse Process 3:02
04. Calavera 3:36
05. Ascent Of The Past 7:40
06. Calacas 2:32
07. Nightengale Floors 4:18
08. Bell And Arc 4:09
09. Taxa 5:55
10. With A Lark's Tongue End 3:47
11. Old Exhibitions 2:22
12. Elegant Skull 4:23
Releasenotes:
Canadian musician, Damian Valles has been performing for more than a decade with
bands that run the musical gambit from punk, post-hardcore and math rock to
electronic and post-rock. Over the last two years he's concentrated more on solo
work, creating experimental ambient and drone based soundscapes.
With several releases already under his belt (a number of limited CD-R's, a
cassette, two Netlabel releases, and several compilation appearances), Skeleton
Taxa, is Valles' seventh release to date. It's also his first "proper" full
length CD and his first for the Drifting Falling imprint. Mastered by Taylor
Deupree (12K), Skeleton Taxa is a return to sounds first explored on his debut
release, Count(r)ies (Under the Spire), but with an even stronger emphasis on
instrumentation and song structure as opposed to the drawn out drones and
ambient pieces he's explored in his recent work. Most of the tracks fall under
five minutes and tend to have clear "parts" and passages, heavily guitar
oriented with spatterings of piano, organ, field recordings and a healthy dose
of percussive backdrops. The ambience and dronings are still present, but are
there to fill out and carry the sound, rather than dominate the piece. Also, a
new element is present on this release, the human voice, with samples and
recordings of dialogue, manipulated or not, strewn throughout the course of the
album. The track, "Bell And Arc", features vocals by Damian's wife, Heidi
Hazelton.
Says Damian, "I feel like it's my most accomplished work to date. The concept
behind Skeleton Taxa is as a collection of individual pieces that work better as
a whole, a patchwork of sorts. Some of the tracks have been sitting dormant for
months to years, some are reworked tracks from a previous life, and some are
fresh out of the box; hints of traditional song compositions intertwined with
sound collage that, somehow, seem to fit together to create a cohesive 'entity'
or 'body'."
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