Artist : M. Ostermeier
Title : Lakefront
Genre : Ambient
Year : 2010
Date : 05/2010
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 07
Label : hibernate
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 29:01 min
Size : 39,7 MB
Tracklist:
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01.Window Frost 02:25
02.Lakefront 04:26
03.Recollection 01:57
04.Overtone 03:55
05.Competing Memories, Both Correct 06:25
06.Lost Weekend 04:52
07.Lost Weekend, Revisionist History 05:01
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29:01 min
M. OstermeierÆs recent solo debut
Percolate (Parvoart, Jan 2010) featured
fragile Rhodes and acoustic piano
melodies atop minimal downtempo
electronics and Labradford-esque guitar
tones. Here on the seven-track mini-
album Lakefront, the skeletal acoustic
piano remains, but the minimal beats
have evaporated and we are left with
something more organic, more haunting.
Harold Budd is still an apt reference
for the piano fragments, but the
infusion of acoustic recordings and
darker guitar and electronics bring to
mind Deaf Center and Library Tapes. The
melancholic mood that builds throughout
Lakefront evokes feelings of nostalgia
and regret. One theme present in MarcÆs
mind as he was writing these pieces was
how the passing of time necessarily
brings uncertainty to oneÆs recollection
of the past û an uncertainty that has
its own poignancy.
Marc lives in Baltimore in the US where
these tracks were recorded during the
last few months of 2009. He was the
main songwriter of the 1990Æs
shoegaze/post-rock band Should and is
also the co-owner of Words On Music, an
independent record label
http://www.hibernate-recs.co.uk