CRUELTY Presents:
Artist...: Noveller
Album....: Desert Fires
Label....: Saffron Recordings
Size.....: 35,5 MB
Source...: CDDA
Playtime.: 34:38 min
Genre....: Ambient
Release..: Jul-02-2010
Encoder..: LAME V3.97 -V2 --Vbr-New
Quality..: avgkbps 44.1Hz Joint-Stereo
Track List:
01 06:10 Almost Alright
02 03:02 Same
03 05:36 Kites Calm Desert Fires
04 05:10 Toothnest (For Chris Habib)
05 06:45 Three Windows Facing Three Doo
06 07:55 Fades
Release Notes:
'Desert Fires' is Noveller's full-length follow-up to
last year's No Fun debut 'Red Rainbows'. The sounds on
'Desert Fires' express a compositional evolution from
layered loop-based drone work to more expansive formal
arrangements of swells, throbs, tones and shimmer.
Where 'Red Rainbows' presented an anthology of studies
in techniqueùfrom early bedroom recordings to NovellerÆs
first exploits in the studio - 'Desert Fires'
illustrates a refined, deliberate meditation on the
physical relationship between Lipstate and her electric
guitar. Handling the instrument as her muse, Lipstate
summons a sonic palette so rich as to challenge the
listener to conceive of how it's housed in a single
instrument manipulated by a solitary performer.
Opening track, "Almost Alright", stakes claim to ground
in territory charted by Fripp & Eno or synth-heavy
contemporaries Emeralds, and leads the listener into the
spacious, sprawling landscape of 'Desert Fires'. "Kites
Calm Desert Fires" is a sandstorm of rich, percussive
guitar, warm humming bass and swirling rhapsodic chimes.
"Toothnest (for Chris Habib)" arrives at an idyllic
sonic plateau of windswept fuzz and tremolo, then
charges blindly with a soaring guitar solo evocative of
bagpipes triumphantly marking a return from battle.
Closing track "Fades" is the precipitate of a fragile
complexity of deeply sensual sonic reactionsùphysically
pairing texture, air and chance with the strings of
Lipstate's guitarùit exposes the emulsion of one's ears
to the light of Noveller's sounds.
Having recently translated the studio recordings of
'Desert Fires' into live arrangements, Lipstate has
patiently nurtured the common pulse of musician and
instrument into a seamless, organic enterprise fit for
consumption from the stage. Noveller tours the US and
Europe thru the summer and fall of 2010 in support of
the Saffron Recordings release, 'Desert Fires'.