Artist : Simon Scott
Title : Navigare
Genre : Ambient
Year : 2009
Date : 12/2009
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 10
Label : Miasmah
Source : Vinyl
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 48:37 min
Size : 66,8 MB
Tracklist:
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01.introducion of cambridge 03:56
02.under crumbing skies 05:24
03.flood in 04:43
04.derelict days 06:01
05.repulse 02:40
06.the acc 03:50
07.the old jug and drum 06:27
08.ashma 03:45
09.spring stars 06:01
10.dissolving memories 05:50
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48:37 min
Simon Scott is something of a hero in
underground music circles, having made
his name as part of Slowdive - one of
shoegaze's genre-defining acts - only to
remain an intensely active presence on
the scene through his collaborations
with Rafael Anton Irisarri (as part of
The Sight Below's live band) and Isan's
Antony Ryan (recording together as
Seavault).
In addition to these projects, Scott
curates the label Kesh, releasing works
from the likes of Sebastian Roux, Hannu,
Mark Templeton and Aus. Throughout all
these various elements of Scott's work
you can trace a common thread running
throughout; there's a fixation on the
more sculpted, textural aspects of
sound. 'Navigare' fully embraces the
idea of sound-sculpting whilst retaining
the more suggestively song-driven
impetus of Scott's past, and the
resultant album marks a new evolutionary
step for Erik Skodvin's Miasmah imprint.
'Introduction Of Cambridge' sets the
album on its course, flooding the
speakers with a sun-dappled, ventilated
drone sound that shifts around
harmoniously until guitars and
eventually very quietly mixed drums
emerge from the distance - it could
almost be a post-rock track were it not
for the blurry edges and the
disproportionate volume difference
between the monolithic central droning
soundscape and the more conventional
instruments. When 'Flood Inn' fires up a
fuzzy, scratchy old drum sample is at
the heart of the mix, swaddled in Gas-
like ambient textures and heated-up
crackle.
While much of the Miasmah catalogue to
date has tended to emerge from darkness,
skulking in shadowy electroacoustic
recesses, Navigare is a brighter affair
- the gravitas and sheer sonic density
remains familiarly in place but there's
a certain quality of iridescence to
these productions that binds them to the
dream-pop movement. This link is never
clearer than on 'The ACC', which takes
slow-mo drums and trad rock band
dynamics only to dissolve them into a
thick, goopy sonic splurge reminiscent
of My Bloody Valentine or Fennesz.
Another great entry into Miasmah's rock
-solid catalogue, and a wonderfully rich
ambient record in its own right - one
whose residual echoes of a shoegaze past
give it an appeal that transcends the
usual parameters of drone music.
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