a r t i s t : Seasons (pre-din)
t i t l e : Stars And Lights: Together We Fall
d a t e : 2010
l a b e l : Thy-Rec
c a t : Thy-010
s o u r c e : CDDA
g e n r e : Ambient/Dark Ambient
r l s. d a t e : Jan/2010
t r a c k s : 08
b i t r a t e : VBRkbps
s i z e : 35,7 MB
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Following on from the wonderful 'Your Eyes The Stars And Your
Hands The Sea' for the Type label, Seasons (Pre-Din) surfaces
with another beautiful handmade edition, featuring half an
hour of windswept environmental recordings, lost radio
transmissions and phantom drones. There's an intangible feel
to the Seasons (pre-din) sound, and you get the feeling that
this could only be music conceived out in the wilds. The
opening piece could almost be a doomy cousin to Richard
SkeltonÆs music, employing bowed drones that spill out
clanging, metallic overtones while deathly radio static and
weather-beaten field recordings bulk up the texture. Each
track segues smoothly into the next, giving the sense that in
structural terms this album functions as a single large-scale
composition that's been divided into indexed movements, rather
than a sequence of individual pieces. The second and third
tracks seem to embrace a more lo-fi, eroded sensibility that
takes you further into the realms of hazy detachment û by the
fourth track it sounds as if you're stranded in a cave deep
underground, with only the chattering noise of shortwave radio
to keep you company. Spooky strings in the vein of The
Caretaker emerge from the fifth section, and all the while
that peculiar wind-like hiss persists. Ghostly pianos
interrupt the flow, but we're soon thrust back into the
disorientating soundscape of static, bringing the album to a
close with a lost broadcast feel.
Grab a copy quick from Boomkat.
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01-Untitled [09:30]
02-Untitled [02:14]
03-Untitled [03:29]
04-Untitled [01:20]
05-Untitled [01:45]
06-Untitled [01:17]
07-Untitled [01:32]
08-Untitled [08:18]
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29:25 min