Artist................... Ashley/Story
Album.....................Standing and Falling
Label.....................Nepenthe
Genre.....................Ambient
Release...................12/15/2005
Street....................xx/xx/2005
Encoder...................LAME 3.97 beta
Quality...................--aps 44.1kHz/joint
# NAME TiME
01. Obstinato 05:42
02. Weights & Measures 05:24
03. Poppies (for Irene) 08:25
04. Chicken Pot Pie 05:30
05. 13th Station 05:05
06. Wax Staircase 07:19
07. The Curve of Spee 01:56
08. Standing and Falling 04:55
09. Ohmen 04:36
10. Dysnipsia 20:49
Recording artists Tim Story and Dwight Ashley are known
for creating introspective albums that probe the more
shadowy side of the human psyche. But with their latest
collaboration, Standing and Falling, the Ashley/Story
perspective turns outward, exploring a curious,
color-soaked soundscape replete with surprising twists
and turns.
Produced over the span of eight years, Standing and
Falling evokes a corresponding sense of time and space,
like a slow, sonic ride on an otherworldly Orient
Express, with scenery that grows more exotic from track
to track. Real-world audio textures suggest a sense of
place - but Ashley/Story's idiosyncratic electronic
orchestration renders that place unlike any we've seen
or visited.
Listeners familiar with Story's taut, haunting melodies
or Ashley's dark, guitar-soaked drones may be surprised
at a distinctly different element on this album: humor.
Track titles like "Ohmen," "Chicken Pot Pie," and "The
Curve of Spee" give clue to the listener that even the
darker tracks on Standing and Falling are punctuated
with witty compositional elements that give the album a
wryly cheerful character.
Standing and Falling is an inventive collection of
electronic tone poems, arguably the most programmatic
Ashley/Story effort to date. Artifacts in a sonic
curiosity shop... audio postcards from an alternate
universe... pictures at an exhibition of subatomic
worlds... whatever one sees in the mind's eye, Standing
and Falling will take the listener on a richly textured
voyage between the ears.
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