All Tiny Creatures - Harbors

It began with a demo forwarded over by Chris Rosenau, attributed to Thomas Wincek, a guy I only knew as Chris's bandmate in the venerable Collections of Colonies of Bees and the brain behind Emotional Joystick, a name that rested in my mind somewhere between Autechre and the Morr Music label. Sure, I'll put it on. A day later, I'd played the songs no less than a dozen times over. They'd taken root. Some guy in Wisconsin just gets it. Among our extended group of friends, I'd found the music that could stand up to my brain and hold its own. I'd long-loved Harmonia, Neu, Cluster, Heldon, and King Crimson, like some time-traveler wanting to get back to her native 1972 -- but All Tiny Creatures taught me why. Two years after that first listen, Thomas Wincek multiplied by four into All Tiny Creatures and Hometapes collaborated with the band on the release of Segni, a four-track 12" EP and instrumental thunderclap of skill, theory, and intention. By then, Wincek, along with his Collections of Colonies of Bees bandmates and Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon, was now a force behind the band Volcano Choir. With a mind stretched across projects, not to mention life with a young family in Madison, Wisconsin, Wincek seemed to run on some hidden aquifer of ideas and energy. Enter Andrew Fitzpatrick, Ben Derickson, and Matthew Skemp: All Tiny Creatures' evolution was becoming a group e ort. Live performances turned explosive. And the music….well, to put it simply, they started hearing voices. Harbors, like any great album, defines its artists and has the power to further define its listener. It's meticulous and soulful. All Tiny Creatures began adding the human voice right as the instrumental Segni was hot o  the presses, bringing in friends and collaborators old and new to conceptualize and vocalize with the eleven compositions that would grow into the album.  

Tracklisting:

1. Holography (4:49)
2. An Iris (3:33)
3. Cargo Maps (4:29)
4. Valves or Hatches (1:49)
5. Glass Bubbles (4:50)
6. Breathing Set (4:19)
7. Aviation Class (7:24)
8. Triangle Frog (5:35)
9. Reservoirs (3:55)
10. Tine Feature (4:14)
11. Plankton March (6:32)

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