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              artist.....: LV
              album......: Ancient Mechanisms

              year.......: 2015
              label......: Brownswood Records
                           BWOOD0143
              source.....: WEB

              moodswing..: Electronic

              releasesize: 82.89 MB
              tracks.....: 14
              length.....: 47:34

              encoder....: LAME
              quality....: avg. 242kbps

              scenealized: 03.20.2016







              "Ancient Mechanisms" is the fourth
              album by globetrotting London
              production duo LV. It traces a train of
              thought that was sparked by a live
              session with Tigran Hamasyan back in
              2012: two and a half years down the
              line and a trip to Belgium later, the
              finished record is as much about the
              workings of musical artefacts as it is
              about putting the virtuoso pianist into
              new contexts.

              The duo, made up of Simon Williams and
              Will Horrocks, found the insides and
              mechanisms (hint) of the instruments
              they were working with to be of
              increasing interest as the project
              developed. They found a discarded,
              portable piano in the former's new flat
              and spent hours painstakingly recording
              its notes, creaks and noises. This left
              them in possession of a MIDI keyboard
              that sounded like something from "a bar
              in a wild west movie" and featured
              heavily on the album. "Ruiselede" makes
              reference to the town whose piano
              museum in which they were able to
              record Hamasyan playing on its
              collection of antique grand pianos.

              LV have always thrived by working with
              new collaborators and environments. In
              the past there's been joint efforts
              with London poet Josh Idehen and
              journeys to South Africa for kwaito-
              infused productions with Johannesburg
              MCs. It was from working with Hamasyan
              that their attention began to shift to
              the piano itself. "We got into the
              sound that instruments make themselves,
              not just the production of the sound,"
              says Williams, "We got into the actual
              sound of keys being hit."

              Anyone who heard the Maida Vale session
              that laid the foundations for the album
              will know how exciting it was to hear
              delicate jazz musicality at play with
              UK-tinged dance rhythms. "Jump and
              Reach" builds on that potential, with
              circling piano going toe to toe with
              rolling drums and stabs of bass. But
              Hamasyan wasn't just providing pretty
              riffs for them to work with, he also
              fed into the process of how they
              worked. As Horrocks says, "His musical
              interests are much more broad than
              perhaps people would expect," something
              that's on show in "Infinite Spring"
              where his penchant for looping pedals
              has produced a wash of sound easy to
              fall adrift in.

              The exploration of what lay inside the
              instruments in front of them is the
              thread holding this unique record
              together: strands ranging from foreign
              surroundings to the darker corners of
              London's club lineage are channelled
              into exploring that idea. There are
              field recordings of Belgium's streets
              along with snare hits in "Transition"
              that nod to the studio where a nascent
              dubstep's sparse aesthetic was born. As
              an album, it draws together disparate
              interests in a way that feels
              compellingly coherent.


              Url: https://lvlvlv.bandcamp.com/





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      01     Carillon                                             02:25
      02     Ruiselede Feat. Tigran Hamasyan                      05:05
      03     Gravity Escapement                                   01:42
      04     Transition                                           04:19
      05     Quick Return                                         00:31
      06     Hammers and Roses Feat. Tigran Hamasyan              03:36
      07     Dar Souiri                                           05:51
      08     Broken Movement                                      01:16
      09     Infinite Spring Feat. Tigran Hamasyan                04:45
      10     Dansaetstraat                                        02:24
      11     Detent                                               01:10
      12     Jump and Rech Feat. Tigran Hamasyan                  04:25
      13     Balance Spring                                       03:50
      14     Yarimo Feat. Tigran Hamasyan                         06:15

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