Artist : Taylor Deupree
Title : Northern
Genre : Electronic
Year : 2006
Date : May-14-2006
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 06
Label : 12k
Source : CDDA
Length : 51:36 min
Size : 69,9 MB
Tracklist:
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01.everything's gone grey 05:28
02.northern 09:34
03.a dead yellow carpet 07:19
04.shell shell bye 10:40
05.haze it may be 09:19
06.november 09:16
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51:36 min
The inspiration behind Northern (including its music, title and photography) comes from DeupreeÆs
recent relocation from the heart of urban activity in Brooklyn to the tranquility of the forest in upstate New
York. Inspired by nature and the winter during which it was created, Northern, like much of his recent
work, explores DeupreeÆs interest in stillness and a slowed sense of time. Through quiet textures,
subtle movements, faint loops and echoes, it was his goal to create the type of music that comes
naturally to him while also highlighting the input from his dramatic new surroundings.
In contrast to the brazen repetition found on Stil., Northern more ephemeral approach to DeupreeÆs
theme comes from looking at the stillness found outside of his studio windows: large, looming
boulders, the softness of snow, and the hushed whisper of wind and fallen leaves; it is a world of
countless tiny movements so active that an implied stillness results from the din it creates.
DeupreeÆs earthbound ideas in the album are rooted in his choice of sounds and studio practices. His
now-signature Kyma manipulations are still prominent, but they have been applied to improvised electric
piano, melodica, guitar, and field recordings using techniques picked up from his experimental/pop
collaboration with Eisi (Every Still Day, Noble Records, Japan, 2005). A careful balance is kept through
the layering of synthetic source tones of basic waveforms and long, drawn-out, fragile swells. Northern
is melodic, warm and introspective, forming a bed of sound that is simultaneously quiet and noisy,
structured and unsettled, looping and chaotic.
Deupree has dedicated Northern to his closest friend of his teenage years, Bryan Charles Striniste, with
whom he first started experimenting in electronic music over 20 years ago. DeupreeÆs relocation to a
nearby area much like the one where he grew up spurred memories of those days of early musical
playfulness. Thus, Northern became highly personal and nostalgic while at the same time breaking into
new territory for Deupree, echoing the changes in his personal life.
Northern is the first solo CD from Taylor Deupree since 2004Æs January (Spekk, Japan), and the first on
12k since the seminal Stil. (12k, 2002).
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