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| | Artist : Taylor Deupree | |
| | Album : Shoals | |
| | Label : 12K Source : WEB MP3 | |
| | Cat. No. : 12k1060 Size : 104.03 MB | |
| | Genre : Ambient StrDate: 2010-00-00 | |
| | Quality : 320kbps/44.1khz/Joint Stereo RipDate: 2010-06-15 | |
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| | While he's kept himself busy with a series of short-form releases | |
| | over the past couple of years, 'Shoals' is in fact Taylor | |
| | Deupree's first proper album release since 2007's Northern. While | |
| | that record introduced traditional instrumentation (notably | |
| | acoustic guitars) into the 12k boss' repertoire, 'Shoals' shuns | |
| | any pop-oriented, pastoral tendencies and marks a return to the | |
| | more abstract, intensive temperament of Deupree's key work, Stil. | |
| | 'Real' instruments still play their part on Shoals, but this time | |
| | the focus of Deupree's preliminary recordings is a selection of | |
| | Javanese and Balinese gamelan instruments he encountered during a | |
| | residency at the University Of York Music Research Centre. Rather | |
| | than playing these in a conventional fashion, Deupree set about | |
| | experimenting with the timbres and innate sonorities of the | |
| | materials they were made of, coaxing sounds out of playing | |
| | surfaces via scraping, tapping or using an eBow. The resultant | |
| | recordings were then channelled through a specially devised | |
| | looping program within Deupree's favoured Kyma system, rendering | |
| | a sonic environment rich in layers and subtle sound processing | |
| | treatments. On first impressions, Shoals feels like a markedly | |
| | more substantial piece of work than its predecessor, but then | |
| | it's also less immediately pretty. This is to be regarded as a | |
| | good thing, because within the complexity and apparent freedom of | |
| | these pieces you'll hear the workings of the same artist that | |
| | made records like the aforementioned Stil. (2002) and its | |
| | precursor Occur (2001) so enduringly brilliant. The key | |
| | difference between Shoals and those albums is the use of space | |
| | and air: while some of Deupree's best moments to date have | |
| | derived from sounds that have been largely confined to the | |
| | two-dimensional space of a computer's hard drive, Shoals seems to | |
| | breathe and pulse in a far more organic fashion - though all the | |
| | while retaining the precision and intrigue of passing digital | |
| | ephemera that are so integral to what Deupree does. In addition | |
| | to the tactile instrumental source sounds, you can also hear | |
| | their interplay with the surrounding space - each recording | |
| | giving you a sense of the room's dimensions and the mechanics of | |
| | Deupree's real-time performance. The division of the album into | |
| | four lengthy pieces seems like another nod to Stil., and it's a | |
| | format that seems to suit this composer's working methodologies, | |
| | allowing the central loop of each composition to evolve through | |
| | its natural course. Northern was hardly a lull in this man's | |
| | catalogue - it was and remains an expertly crafted album of its | |
| | kind - and so calling Shoals a return to form wouldn't quite be | |
| | right, it is however a return to the more methodical and | |
| | interrogative spirit of Taylor Deupree's most successful | |
| | releases. Very highly recommended. | |
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| | Tracklisting: | |
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| | 01. Shoals 11:28 | |
| | 02. Rusted Oak 9:37 | |
| | 03. A Fading Found 12:07 | |
| | 04. Falls Touching Grasses 12:06 | |
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| | 45:18 | |
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