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Concern is the project of Oregon's Gordon Ashworth who's taking tape manipulation and running with it on this album which includes a couple of earlier rarities by way of bonus cuts. Inevitably there's a William Basinski sort of feel to his ambience as his tapes wear out, repeat and decay with that beautiful trademark warmth which is in stark contrast with the heavily synth-based sound of much of the recent (tidal) wave of modern ambient music and provides very welcome relief from it, at least to my jaded ears. At times harmonium drones feature very prominently while he also gets piano, banjo and guitar involved from time to time, amongst other instrumentation. It's definitely of the 'involving listen' type of ambience rather than the 'passive snoozathon' type and I can see it really appealing to those who were into the Concert Silence releases. High class ass.
"Cæsarean," the new album by solo artist Concern, is primarily composed of piano, banjo and extensive tape manipulation. Rejecting the heavily electronic/synthesizer foundations of modern ambient music, "Cæsarean" is a uniquely beautiful and organic album; mournful collages of decaying tape loops, swelling acoustic tones, and harmonious, shimmering banjo drones. Included in the CD version released by Slow Flow Recs are two earlier Concern pieces, previously released in a very limited edition by Students of Decay in 2007. Concern (aka Gordon Ashworth) resides in Oregon, USA, and will be touring extensively in Japan in Europe in Autumn, 2010.
I. Discrete Memorial
II. Mending
III. From Warmth and From Violence
IV. Immersed in Envy, Porous With Forgetfulness
V. Leaving Gold
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