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The Green Kingdom
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Description: | CD on Home Assembly |
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| Format: | CD | |
| Genre(s): | Electronic | |
| Label: | Home Assembly | |
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£9.79
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| Availability: | In stock. Dispatched in 1 working day. |
...according to our Brian on 01 September 2010.
Northern stable of audio pastoralism Home Assembly has been hoovering up some fine talent in recent times. Now they're aiming their sights over the Atlantic, towards a man in Michigan, Michael Cottone, who likes to tinker about with twinkly ambient moods, guitar processing & occasional drifty, downtempo beatsmithery. This is another of those sublime, richly detailed & sensual excursions into sound that only truly works when there's nothing to detract from your purely solitary enjoyment of these crystalline, organic passages & gently massaging folds of near-tropical wonderment. Immerse yourself in this beauty, you may be gone sometime! A very elegant addition to the ever-expanding cannon of modern sound-art & ambient classics out there! Limited initial copies arrive with a remix disc featuring the talents of bvdub, Inch-Time, Declining Winter, Fieldhead, Part Timer & The boats (i.e. an all-star cast!!)
The Green Kingdom is Michael Cottone , a graphic designer and sound artist based in Michigan (US). Having previously released albums on a number of labels including SEM label (France) and Own Records (Luxembourg),Home Assembly Music are delighted to announce details of his latest offering, ‘Prismatic’.
Utilising a similar musical palette to last year’s acclaimed ‘Twig And Twine’ CD and once again expertly mastered by Taylor Deupree (12k/Line), on this outing Cottone ventures deeper into the landscape of The Green Kingdom with a collection of beautifully crafted, intricately detailed, organic/electronic instrumentals.
Sitting comfortably amidst the field of electro-acoustic music production, what makes Cottone's work stand apart from his contemporaries is the warmth, emotion and true understanding of melody and harmony so evidently on display within these expansive arrangements. There is a real sense of space and depth to this collection which filter elements of dub, techno, folk and electronic experimentation through the prism of processed guitars, strings, bells and other sampled instruments.
Recalling Susumu Yokota, Shuttle 358, The Boats, Harold Budd and even vintage era The Durutti Column on the album’s cornerstone track, ‘Wetlands’. On tracks such as the sun-drenched ‘Radiance Reflected’ and ‘Bonfire (tec)’, alluring melodies are underpinned by the most subtle of beat constructions. Whilst on ‘The Largest Creature That Has Ever Existed’, deep, subby drones plumb the depths as finespun rhythms and delicate melodies swell, rise and break the surface. Equal parts brooding and beguiling, optimistic and uplifting, an album that is perfectly timed to welcome the lengthening shadows of early autumn, while casting a wistful glance back at the last gasps of summer. These are adventures in modern composition that never lose sight of the importance of melody, harmony and rhythm. Minimalism at its most expressive, lush and emotional.
A limited number of 'Prismatic' will be issued with an additional bonus CD of remixes from the likes of bvdub,The Boats, Part Timer, Insecto, H.A.M., Yuri Lugovskoy, Northerner, Fieldhead, The Declining Winter and Inch-time. These artists take the original compositions into some unexpected and exciting new musical territories.
1/ Bonfire (intro) 2/ Bells And Thoughts 3/ Claude's Ghost 4/ Radiance Reflected 5/ The Largest Creature That Has Ever Existed 6/ Woven 7/ Wetlands 8/ Thoughts And Bells (3:07am dub) 9/ Bonfire (tec) 10/ A Prayer
