Artist : Offthesky & Bill Seaman
Album : Layers Of Memory In The Quiet Voice Of Motion
Year : 2019
Genre : Ambient
Quality : 239kbps / 44.1KHz / Joint Stereo
Source : Webshop / FLAC
Playtime : 0h 42m
Size : 75.87mb
Label : Fluid Audio
Catalognr : Fluid Audio 072
Tracklist:
01. Layers Of Memory In The Quiet Voice Of Motion 42:10
Releasenotes:
'Layers of Memory in the Quiet Voice of Motion' fuses together a collaboration
of the highest experimental order: offthesky & Bill Seaman. This record details
memories of increasing distance as well as times past. Nothing and no-one can
stop, reclaim, or reverse the flow of time; once the moment has happened, it has
gone. Years seem to speed up the older one gets, and all of a sudden 2020 is on
the horizon. Where did the time go? There isnÆt a better way to end a decade.
Transience is also felt in music, which is never stationary. The tones are
always moving, receding further and further into the distance, like that one
experience, like that single moment. Longing can replace logic in the blink of
an eye, but sadness doesnÆt seem to coat the music, and it doesnÆt want to û
itÆs a realistic and accepting sound, looking back on events with some slice of
inevitable nostalgia, but keeping an eye on the present, too. The past has power
in reeling people back into its history.
ThereÆs a sweet flow to the record, which is intentional. The music resembles a
single lifetime thanks to its uninterrupted state, turning the pages and
segueing from chapter to chapter. People, experiences, and events all bleed in
and out, sometimes emerging from a cocoon at just the right time, sometimes
overlapping between the various stages of life, or sometimes being suddenly
severed, guillotine-like, after having served their purpose.
Some say that everything happens for a reason, that people come in and out of a
life for one beneficial reason or another, staying for a season or a lifetime.
The tones overlap and disappear, too, as does a female vocal, which swings and
sways in a place outside of time, rising up from trench-deep pools of memory.
Her voice, which one will never hear again, still plays in the mind, although
itÆs altered and fabricated thanks to the passing of time and the inaccuracies
of remembrance. ItÆs a pitch or two off, bent out of its true tonality.
The major takeaway from this record is a feeling of growing distance, a
pitch-black hallway elongating and stretching until its immensity makes it
impossible to measure. Time teaches one to relinquish the false idea of control.
Things slip through the fingers. So do the years.
Clarinet Solos û James Chu, Recorded by Seaman
Violin Solos û Wei Ping Lin, Recorded by Volkmar Klien
Horn and Violin Arrangements Seaman
Singing - Rin Howell
Produced - Corder / Seaman
Mastering - Corder
Design - Daniel Crossley
Print design - Craig Tattersall
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