Ouep du ambient / drone avec des subtilités appréciables, petit historique ci-après en annglishh
ps: (presque sold out
pour une fois !
je recommandes notamment les premières contributions avec Kate dont le beautifulesque "Wet Roads"
malheureusement qu'en digital ici :
http://music.audiogourmet.co.uk/album/wet-roadsil y a aussi tous les autres opus et le 1er sur rural colours :
http://www.ruralcolours.co.uk/releases/rc001/rc001.html(cd sold out mais digital gratuit)
ou encore les superbes sorties mini CD sur le label sold out en 6 minutes 15secondes 122 centièmes : heat death !
...from dreams...
All tracks written and composed by
Jeff Stonehouse.
Mastering, photography, CD package and booklet designed by David Ya.
"Listening mirror is the ambient/drone project of Jeff Stonehouse. It has been in existence since October 2009, when it was formed as a duo with Kate Tustain. Kate withdrew from the project in January 2011.
Listening Mirror have released material on aReW Records, Somehow Recordings, Heat Death Records, Rural Colours, and now Entropy Records. Future releases are planned for Hibernate and Sweat Lodge Guru.
...from dreams... contains two tracks, 'Black Spring' and 'Lifting the Veil of Clouds'. Both tracks are true to the Listening Mirror ethos of 'using sound as a defence against itself' in which sounds that would normally seem banal, discordant or unpleasant are stretched and looped, their frequencies and harmonics seperated and recombined and then treated with a variety of effects to form a thing of beauty. To this drone are added field recordings and more traditional instruments such as guitar and piano.
'Black Spring' was written and recorded between the hours of 1am and 4am on a winters night in 2010. Jeff deliberately woke himself at 1am so that he would be writing in a half sleeping state, to see if he could illustrate that feeling of dreamlike fatigue in the piece. The dogs you hear were recorded out of the studio window, also during this 3 hour period.
'Lifting the Veil of Clouds' was begun in the Spring of 2010 but only finished in March of this year. Originally titled 'Amiga Genio' (Genius Friend), it lay dormant for a long time, having been recorded with the intention of adding Kate's amazing vocal talents, sadly this was not to be. The title is supposed to signify the rebirth of the piece, its re-emergence into the light of day."
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