Description:	Ltd CD (100 only) on Make Mine Music
	Format:	CD
	Genre(s):	Ambient
	Label:	Make Mine Music
	Price:	£5.19
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...according to our Mingus on 14 May 2008.

Still Crescent: Along The Fringe Of Starlit Frost (MakeMineMusic)When I first heard this yesterday it was like a half remembered dream, you know the like: a few minutes (or hours) upon awaking, you realised you've just experienced something but can't quite pinpoint it. Yes, it's one of those wierd reveries where one can't quite fathom the details though you acknowledge that something's happened. Another ambient recording, but one where it's difficult to identify what has been used to make up the five slowly evolving soundscapes. Sometimes aquatic, at times glacial, all the tracks seem to hover in a bit of a netherworld beyond who knows where. If that's vague and abstracted enough for you then I'm sure this ghostly collection will further transport you. Limited to seventy five copies I'm told.

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What their label says...

“Along The Fringe Of Starlit Frost” moves Still Crescent into more melodious territory after the cold abstractions of the debut release “The Railway Terminus”.  Musically, the EP retains the sparseness and chill of the debut, carried along by distant almost indifferent percussion. In keeping with the best ambient music, Still Crescent’s sound can be all enveloping or barely perceived, depending upon how the listener chooses to experience it.  Listening to the five tracks can give the impression of time either being suspended or accelerating, their 25-minute duration appearing to pass in an instant.  Listening at volume on headphones reveals the full intricacies and depth of these recordings.    
Sébastien Wright, the man behind the Still Crescent moniker, cites a wide range of musical and non-musical influences including Eno and Fripp, Angelo Badalementi, Paul Auster, Sylvia Plath, Victorian ghost strories, and the natural and industrial landscapes of South Yorkshire.  The title of the EP is taken from a line in the Eden Philpotts poem 'December' and the influence of literature continues throughout the EP with references to W. H. Auden and Charlotte Brontë.  
”Along the Fringe of Starlit Frost” will be followed by a third EP; recorded prior to the debut release, the as-yet-untitled EP will be a highly limited 3" CD with individual handmade artwork. Towards the end of the year, there will be a full-length album as well as an appearance on the Make Mine Music MMM050 compilation in the autumn.
Tracks: The Sombre Spire, A Christmas Frost, The Railway Terminus, Loomis, Dreadful Martyrdom