Artist : Edu Comelles
Album : Still Life
Year : 2019
Genre : Ambient
Quality : 242kbps / 48.0KHz / Joint Stereo
Source : Webshop / FLAC
Playtime : 0h 49m
Size : 90.99mb
Label : Fluid Audio
Catalognr : Fluid Audio 070
Tracklist:
01. Of Course, But Maybe 6:52
02. Still Life 4:48
03. This Winter Sun 7:36
04. The Sweet Hereafter 6:50
05. Lament 10:12
06. A Lisbon Story 1:46
07. Maestrat 11:36
Releasenotes:
Still Life is an album about the nature of field recordings and their power to
become instruments by itself. Still Life is about re-contextualising fragments,
pieces and excerpts of someone else's sound to make it your own. Still Life is
about purposing and re-purposing field recordings as musical notes, colours or
textures, regardless of their initial intent, purpose or meaning. Is about
bringing back to life something fixed and apparently immobile as a mere
recording.
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On Still Life, Valencia's Edu Comelles explores shattered tones and microscopic
textures, stitching his jagged pieces of ambient back together and creating
something positive out of ruin. Fluid Audio continues to delicately traverse a
terrain of fragility and transience, but a wider theme of rebirth encircles
Still Life's thoughtful music; a phoenix of hope after a period of brokenness
and desolation.
Sound design requires meticulous detail, and Comelles has always excelled in
this area. He's sensitive to each and every moment, and his bright ambient music
bears the fruit of patience. Still Life zooms further in on the microscopic, but
he passes through tonal-tributaries with a great amount of tenderness and
affection. Broken places are teachers, and Comelles, through these intimate
tones, gathers himself and his music, literally picking up the pieces before
being able to stand upright, without weakness, in the full light of day once
again. Character is forged and then strengthened in moments such as these. Still
Life is a place of rest, but not of pause. The music is still moving and the
leaves are still swirling; with or without them, life is continuing on. The
music's breathing is another sign of mortal delicacy, and the music takes into
account the art style of still life in that its camera zooms in and alights on
the beautiful in closer detail.
The growing distortion of 'Lament' doesn't break up the delicate feeling,
although things are close to snapping. Crackles around the edge hint at some
kind of acidic breakdown, a rapid dissolving, but growth can only proceed from
erosion and begin from an ending; the soil is the birthplace of a future flower.
In some ways, Still Life takes a philosophical and spiritual approach. Its
drones are long sustains, forever thoughtful and forever faithful, but still
imbued with tonal weakness. In fact, this weakness becomes its strength. 'This
Winter Sun' is a prime example of fragility, as its weak light does nothing to
dispel the February frost. As part of the packaging, old antique books were
taken apart and reassembled to make something beautiful, mirroring the music's
desire to rise once again. Still Life is placed on display for all to
experience.
Daniel Crossley
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Music written, recorded and produced by Edu Comelles
Mastering by Edu Comelles
Design by Daniel Crossley
Additional art support by Craig Tattersall
Thanks to Sara Galßn, Felicia Mar, Francesc Valldecabres and M·sica Trobada and
specially thanks to Isabel Latorre for her kindness and generosity.
This album is dedicated to all musicians which whom I have collaborated and
learnt over the years, specially those who kindly allowed me to tinker with
their own sounds.
http://educomelles.bandcamp.com/album/still-life