The SiBERiA team presents:
Mark Templeton & aAron Munson - Acre Loss
Release Info:
Artist ...... Mark Templeton & aAron Munson
Title ....... Acre Loss
Type ........ LP
Label ....... Anticipate Recordings
Cat.Number .. ANTICIPATE009
Genre ....... Electronic
Style ....... Ambient, Downtempo
Street date . 17-02-2009
Rip date .... 19-02-2009
Source ...... WEB
Url ......... http://www.beatport.com
Encoder ..... LAME v3.97
Ripper ...... dedmoroz
Quality ..... 320kbps / 44.1 kHz / Full Stereo
Tracks ...... 10
Size ........ 93.74 Mb
List Of Tracks:
Track Title Time
01 ... aTest 3:02
02 ... This Will Pass 5:21
03 ... Saw To The Seed 3:29
04 ... Too Small 0:52
05 ... Contents Are 2:32
06 ... 1 Is To One As 4:22
07 ... Safer 4:23
08 ... It's Ok To Fall 3:52
09 ... Small One 0:42
10 ... Looking Northward 10:02
Total
38:37
Release Notes:
Acre Loss is a collaborative project which brings together musician
Mark Templeton and filmmaker aAron Munson to create 10 musical
compositions accompanied by 10 short films. Working together on all
pieces of this project, the resulting blend of electro-acoustic
orientation and cinematic warmth gives Acre Loss an unusual, yet
familiar perspective into the impact of a fleeting sense of home.
Guitar, banjo, a host of both home and outdoors-based field recordings,
and sounds derived from those ingredients, dominate the musical aspect
of Acre Loss. Kitchen utensils in use and the atmosphere of being just
outside that kitchen in a cold Canadian morning accompany the subtle
processing of string instruments. Wrangling in softer elements with
rough-around-the-edges distortion, these pieces clearly delineate
melodies, while housing them at the center of waves of heavy ripples of
effects, retaining Templeton's sonic personality while clearly making
space for his collaborator. Affective sound structures bring the visual
component into focus, with the ability to act as specific sonic events
or as soundtrack. Though the music stands alone as an album, it is more
fully realized and understood in the short, hazy bursts of the
intertwined visual material, contributing to the sense that together
they are parts of a more complete object.
An unhurried pace characterizes both song and film in Acre Loss, as
both find their identity in texture and tone. Languid passages portray
a close proximity to both setting and character, even if there are no
strict translations around either. The use of film rather than digital
video along with the artists' treatment of said film, transforms the
pieces into layered explorations, just as the songs they are part of.
They rest in a time and sense which is neither futuristic nor overly
gazing backward, but more akin to memory realized within a current
visual language; bridging ideas of dreamscapes and focused, every-day
reality into a single statement. The overwhelming tendency is one which
feels at once physical, of this immediate world and comforting, as well
as distant and uneasy.
The strengths of this work lie in the knowledge and perspective brought
to it by each collaborator, while allowing for the shift in perspective
which comes from opening up the working process to another, who comes
from a different set of skills, yet understands the complementary
abilities and possibilities of the other's medium of choice. Mark
Templeton is best known for his critically acclaimed Standing on a
Hummingbird album (Anticipate, 2007), though he has been active in the
Edmonton, Alberta music scene for years (previous to his recent move to
Montreal). aAron Munson is an Edmonton-based filmmaker whose work has
taken the form of more than twenty short films, as well as several
installations and performances with musical artists (including with
Mark Templeton at MUTEK 2007). aAron uses Super 8 and 16mm film with
overtly modern cinematic processes to find the best of different times
and technologies. His work has been recognized and supported by the
National Film Board of Canada and is being exhibited at film festivals
around the world.
Look at www.anticipaterecordings.com if you wanna to know more