Artist : Taylor Deupree
Title : Northern
Genre : Electronic
Year : 2008
Date : 02/2011
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 06
Label : 12k
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 50:48 min
Size : 69,3 MB
Tracklist:
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01.Everything's Gone Grey 05:31
02.Northern 09:40
03.A Dead Yellow Carpet 08:32
04.Shell Shell Bye 11:17
05.Haze It May Be 06:31
06.November 09:17
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50:48 min
Due to continued demand for this title
and the fact that the initial pressing
of 1,500 copies sold out in less than 6
months, 12k is re-issuing Northern in an
expanded package with re-mixed and re-
mastered audio.
the audio:
Not content to merely order a re-
pressing of the same masters on hand at
the cd manufacturer, Taylor Deupree set
out to create what he calls the
ôdirectorÆs cutö of one of the most
important cds in his catalog. The idea
was to open the now-2-year-old computer
files to re-mix and re-master the
tracks. Of course over the course of
years computers change, formats change,
and Deupree found himself faced with
missing plug-ins, errored sound files
and other oddities that made working
with the files difficult. What first
seemed like roadblocks turned into a
mission to work with what was there and
re-do what was not. The result is a
Northern that will, on the surface, seem
quite similar to the original, however
listeners will hear new sounds, extended
endings, shortened endings and most of
all, an overall mix that presents these
works with a new clarity and
spaciousness. Mastering in the analog
domain has given the work a new found
sense of delicacy and detail.
the package:
A heavyweight cardboard wallet with
debossed typography on the front cover.
Inside are two pockets, one for the CD
and one for a 24-page booklet of
photography, credits, and lots of white
space. All printing, as with the
original, is in black and white.
the original press release:
The inspiration behind Northern
(including its music, title and
photography) comes from DeupreeÆs recent
relocation from the heart of urban
activity in Brooklyn to the tranquility
of the forest in upstate New York.
Inspired by nature and the winter during
which it was created, Northern, like
much of his recent work, explores
DeupreeÆs interest in stillness and a
slowed sense of time. Through quiet
textures, subtle movements, faint loops
and echoes, it was his goal to create
the type of music that comes naturally
to him while also highlighting the input
from his dramatic new surroundings.
In contrast to the brazen repetition
found on Stil., Northern more ephemeral
approach to DeupreeÆs theme comes from
looking at the stillness found outside
of his studio windows: large, looming
boulders, the softness of snow, and the
hushed whisper of wind and fallen
leaves; it is a world of countless tiny
movements so active that an implied
stillness results from the din it
creates.
DeupreeÆs earthbound ideas in the album
are rooted in his choice of sounds and
studio practices. His now-signature Kyma
manipulations are still prominent, but
they have been applied to improvised
electric piano, melodica, guitar, and
field recordings using techniques picked
up from his experimental/pop
collaboration with Eisi (Every Still
Day, Noble Records, Japan, 2005). A
careful balance is kept through the
layering of synthetic source tones of
basic waveforms and long, drawn-out,
fragile swells. Northern is melodic,
warm and introspective, forming a bed of
sound that is simultaneously quiet and
noisy, structured and unsettled, looping
and chaotic.
Deupree has dedicated Northern to his
closest friend of his teenage years,
Bryan Charles Strniste, with whom he
first started experimenting in
electronic music over 20 years ago.
DeupreeÆs relocation to a nearby area
much like the one where he grew up
spurred memories of those days of early
musical playfulness. Thus, Northern
became highly personal and nostalgic
while at the same time breaking into new
territory for Deupree, echoing the
changes in his personal life.
Northern is the first solo CD from
Taylor Deupree since 2004Æs January
(Spekk, Japan), and the first on 12k
since the seminal Stil. (12k, 2002).
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