a r t i s t : Cloudland Canyon
t i t l e : Requiems Der Natur 2002-2004
d a t e : 2006
l a b e l : Tee Pee (TPE 069)
g e n r e : Folk
r l s. d a t e : Jul/2006
t r a c k s : 10
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 48,7 MB
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Spanning three years of studio work, Cloudland Canyon was born
when Uhlhorn, touring Europe with Panthers in 2002, met up
with German multi-instrumentalist Simon Wojan. Tapes were
exchanged, and a handful of improv performances across the
Atlantic forged a promising creative pairing, one that would
take shape when Wojan made the trek to Brooklyn later that
year. Through a week's worth of 12 hour days in the recording
studio, armed with as many instruments and computers as they
could find, the two assembled the basic tracks for Requiems
Der Natur: rattling, sprawling experiments that fused their
musical discoveries, which take the shape of its container,
then rapidly spill out and fill whatever size of space they're
given. Within, strictures of German new age and electronic
music of the '70s haze into field recordings mottled with
analog burble and echoes of woodwinds. Shambling, modal organ
ruminations detour browned-out meditation hang sesh. Blue-eyed
drunken soul collapses upon swarms of meticulously composed
synthesizers into a yellowed, rejoicing howl. Bulkheads of
battleship-grey sound are dry-docked and meet the sun for the
first time, then the solitude of night. Smoky Mountain
fingerpicking rests for seemingly connected moments against an
ever-changing backdrop of technology. Contributions by The
Double's Jacob Morris, Turing Machine/The Juan MacLean drummer
Jerry Fuchs, and Uhlhorn's wife, Kelly Winkler, fortified the
sessions with further points of view. Then, the tapes were
traded and processed even further by the musicians, until the
resulting product, now in your hands, became complete.
Getting a bead on where the colors of sound that make up the
nightfall shroud of Requiems der Natur 2002-2004 meet is
difficult, but they are working from much the same influence
as the musicians of This Heat, bravely challenging musical
taboos in Cold Storage during the barren wilds of the mid-70s,
the smearing of musical tropes in early Ash Ra Tempel, the
heart of the work behind Mahavishnu's Birds of Fire, or the
all-hands genre clash that resulted in the first Tortoise LP.
Cloudland Canyon has made the kind of album you can get lost
in, wander through, and pick out something new upon each
listen, for those who find excitement in patience and
understand the ultimate rewards of discovery, for those who
keep looking at the night sky when the clouds roll in and
definitions dissolve in halos of colored lights.
http://www.teepeerecords.com/bands/clc/
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01-Opening-Ice of Rift [03:24]
02-Clearlight Intry [02:47]
03-Carolina Foxtail-Sea Chirp [09:01]
04-Field Ghosts [03:02]
05-Coastal Breathe [02:55]
06-Holy Canyon (Vanquish) [05:40]
07-Joyfull Noise [02:31]
08-Secondary Chanting [03:16]
09-Summer Cloth [02:39]
10-Bright Beijing [07:18]
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42:33 min