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1. CELLOLOOP / MORE THAT CONNECTS US
2. RAIN GUTTER
3. FOURTH FLOOR
4. NAIROBI TRAFFIC LIGHT
5. POSSIBILITY / KARDIO LOOP (A)
6. STONERELLA
7. DON'T KILL IT BY NAMING IT
8. INSANELY ALIVE
9. EL CONDOR PASA
10. KARDIO LOOP (B)
11. CAN'T ESCAPE INTO SPACE
12. KARDIO LOOP (C)
13. CELLOLOOP / STRONGER THAN THIS
14. IM TREPPENHAUS (A)
15. LATE FOR THE WEBINAR
16. KARDIO LOOP (D)
17. KANTINE
18. OCEAN WALK
19. GIVE ME A SHADOW |
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| | Description: | Moon in Earthlight describes the phenomenon one can see in the first few days after a New Moon, when the slim crescent of
the moon is completed into a full circle by a faint light that is not lit by sunlight but by the light reflected from Earth. It is
also the apt title for the first album from an artist whose first love was astronomy. After 6 EPs over the course of 5 years,
Wolfgang Tillmans now releases his first album, Moon in Earthlight, a singularly plural 53-minute piece comprised of 19
tracks.
Opening with more that connects us than divides us, ??Celloloop / More That Connects Us??, a looped cello sets out a
discursive path for a bright keyed melody to flirt with while the sounds of the organ and synthesizer build their supporting
roles, all along a bouncing four-to-the-floor beat punctuated with bright electronic chimes and the rhythmic tempo of a
shaker. The invitation is hard to resist as a yearning voice opens up to let us know he??s left his ??place in security.? And,
??you??re shining ? All the way down to this glittering place ? you??re shining.? Where voices and laughter are then
overheard in the background of another field recording sounding water dripping from a ??Rain Gutter?? later caught by the soft,
warm rhythmic bounce between two synth notes on ??Fourth Floor?? where chime-like and percussive timbres resonate from
the metal tine keys of the kalimba creating a meditative acuity, which Tillmans peppers with arpeggiated synth riffs.
A composition of multiplicities, Tillmans?? album debut is a collage of sounds, field recordings, words, studio jam sessions
and live recordings, voice, soundscapes, and instrumentation scored with audible space to breathe along the way. Keeping
pace, the first ??Kardio Loop?? is a vocal callisthenics contemplating ??the possibility of a happy life?? and/or the propositional
properties of its semantic constructions backed by the recording of a heartbeat from a cardiogram. This movement is
gradually accompanied by a set of orchestral synth pads that build to a crescendo before the soft, twirling melody of
??Stonerella?? carries us along a carousel-like melodic, pop, instrumental timed in the percussive clapping of pebbles.
Not knowing where one leaves off and the other begins is part of this album??s enigma, as we move in and out of these aural
spaces choreographed with the slightest, open hand, where we can float through ??Don??t Kill It by Naming It?? before dancing
along ??Insanely Alive?? all the while contemplating the inherent, fragile complexities of language and being.
This enigma also stems from the raw vulnerability of Tillmans?? voice. Whether lyrically playful or introspective, it is always
giving: intimately unfolding as in the surprising take on Simon & Garfunkel??s ??El Condor Pasa?? or shapeshifting in ??Can??t
Escape into Space?? or fully naked as raw material expression in ??Kantine?? and ??Ocean Walk??.
Whether it??s Tillmans voice or voices overheard, a field recording or a pop synth melody, these sounds defy track listings,
audibly held together as one of many in an aural space that becomes a reflective cycle that develops over the course of the
album. The accumulative effect of which (reminiscent of the artist??s installations), drives the singularity of each of the
album??s elements into a complete, unconsolidated whole. Like a phenomenon that marks time, Moon in Earthlight is the
shadow and the reflection, fifty-three minutes in time. - 01 - Recorded at FIOW Fire Island Pines, and Pfizer Building, Brooklyn, 2019
02 - Recorded in Nairobi, 2018
03 - Recorded at P2, Berlin, 2020 / 2021
04 - Recorded in Nairobi, 2018
05 - Vocals [...] Recorded in New York City, 2017
Field recording and synthesizer [...] Recorded in Berlin, 2019 / 2021
06 - Recorded at FIOW, Fire Island Pines, 2018
07 - Recorded at Trixx Studios, Berlin, 2018
08 - Recorded at Trixx Studios, Berlin, 2020
09 - Recorded at BOFFO Performance Festival 2018, Fire Island Pines
10 - Recorded in Berlin, 2019
11 - Recorded at Trixx Studios, Berlin, 2020
12 - Recorded in Berlin, 2019 / 2021
13 - Recorded at Pfizer Building, Brooklyn, 2019
14 - Recorded at P2, Berlin, 2017 / 2021
15 - Recorded at FIOW, Fire Island Pines, 2019 and Trixx Studios, Berlin, 2020
16 - Recorded in Berlin, 2019
17 - Recorded at Kantine am Berghain, Berlin, 2019
18 - Recorded at FIOW, Fire Island Pines, 2018
19 - Recorded at Trixx Studios, Berlin, 2020
Mastered [...] at Trixx Studios, Berlin, 2021
Record is housed in an inner sleeve with printed artwork.
Tracks are listed sequentially on release, regardless to side.
Lacquer cut not credited, derived from etched runout inscriptions.
'1l' are mirrored in runouts side A. | | | Manufacturer No.: |
80412840 |
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