Artist : Ben Swire
Title : From Here To There
Genre : Electronic
Year : 2010
Date : 03/2010
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 08
Label : Preservation
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 39:02 min
Size : 54,5 MB
Tracklist:
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01.Propel 03:36
02.Passing Through 04:34
03.Summer 05:36
04.And There 04:56
05.Far Removed 04:55
06.Halfway 04:46
07.Forever 05:24
08.That One Last Thing 05:15
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39:02 min
The Preservation label presents From
Here To There, the debut album from San
FranciscoÆs Ben Swire.
While From Here To There can sit snugly
in the canon of electronica, itÆs played
out with expansive vision and immediate
warmth. Woven together with a deft sense
of minimalism and melody using double
bass, interlocking guitars and crisp
percussion, the use of live
instrumentation against densely layered
field recordings finds great balance
between elasticity and deep ambient
underpinnings. The accomplished nature
of From Here To There is the result of a
diverse background working in music
composition and sound engineering. Ben
is a multi-instrumentalist who lived a
spell in London, during which he came to
collaborate on a single on the Ninja
Tune label offshoot NTone with Riz
Maslen, aka Neotropic. He also studied
electronic music with noted electro-
acoustic artist Charles Bestor,
collaborated with experimentalists M
Bentley and Joel Stern and has composed
for film and new media. After writing,
performing and improvising with various
groups, Ben pushed his focus further
with production techniques to sow the
seeds for From Here To There, his
process clearly keeping an eye firmly on
beautifully realised composition.
Ben is also a photographer, his work
having been shown in several US
galleries. His photos of desolate
landscapes grace the artwork of the
album to become a visual touchstone for
the musicÆs epic sweep and sense of
affected space.
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