(Catalogue no. 15052)
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| Title: |
The Circle Is Not Round |
| Artist: |
Arc |
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A Silent Place |
| Format: |
CD |
| Price: |
€ 12.90 |
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Title Description:
A Silent Place is the new-born child of the Small Editions Family. It will release music on both vinyl and CD, with the aim of giving vent to the passion crossing between acoustic sounds of the best psych-folk tradition and hypnotic sonorities of drone music.
The Circle Is Not Round began as a series of live recordings that Baker blurs into a concoction that lays somewhere in between the spiralling melancholy of a non-aggressive Troum and the '70s prog-ambience of Popul Vuh. Baker's impressionist guitar drones are at the center of these recordings; and while the original live sessions probably slanted more towards the hippie and less the psychedelic end of the spectrum, Baker abstracts all of his sounds with enough backwards masking, tapeloops, and shimmering delay patterns to transform the improv noodling into slow burning dissonant crescendos, earthen throbs, and kosmiche soundscapes with more than a few references to Fennesz, Growing, and even Kompakt's Pop Ambient sound, if you can imagine a guitarist doing his best impersonation of that very digitally constructed ambience.
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