a r t i s t : Richard Skelton
t i t l e : Marking Time
d a t e : 2008
l a b e l : Preservation (PRE018)
g e n r e : Instrumental
r l s. d a t e : Oct/2008
t r a c k s : 07
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 54,4 MB
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Richard has previously recorded in various guises -- as
Clouwbeck, Heidika, Carousell and A Broken Consort. Marking
Time is his first work under his own name, and also the first
to be released on a label other than his own, Sustain-Release.
Through the prolific output on Sustain-Release, Richard has
created a singular vision with his music: a sound that is at
once complex and elemental in its questing nature, corporal
feel and ultimately life-affirming quality. As The Wire
writes, Richard's music inhabits landscapes -- both physical
and emotional -- etched with memory and loss.
Marking Time represents a new beginning for Richard and finds
him at his most direct and intimate, slowly turning on
relatively bare textures of bowed strings, piano and guitar. A
meditation on loss and the passing of time, its measure of
transcendence accumulates in instrumental passages that work
like gestures drifting towards a sense of space both rich and
real.
Richard continues to use his numerous names by which to
produce music as well as further the relationship his creative
muse has with his physical surroundings (he lives on the rural
edges of Lancashire) through his Landings project. Here, he
leaves one-off recordings in the outdoors environment in which
they're made as a kind of offering and acknowledgment to the
power and inextricable connection he feels from these
settings.
And as with Marking Time, it is with his music that Richard
impacts on and affects that environment, by documenting his
ever-changing shape in it by means not only uniquely personal,
but universal in a devastatingly beautiful way.
http://www.preservation.com.au/richardskelton.html
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01-Grange [03:15]
02-Shore [07:04]
03-Fold [06:24]
04-Heys [07:34]
05-Brook [08:00]
06-Lowe [03:21]
07-Stake [05:18]
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40:56 min