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Our album of the week (22nd December 2011)
...according to our Mike on Wed 21 Dec, 2011.
What a beautiful and soothing record this is. It's like stepping into a warm bath. Lots of relaxing waves of tone like Stars of the Lid but with bubbly Dolphins Into The Futureisms peeking out from the background. I just reviewed a pretty harsh noise record and this is just what I need to get back to somewhere a bit more level. There's a haunting spirituality to the washes of drone and silence is used as a compositional element here to good effect. It's quite mournful and reflective...if it was the soundtrack to a film I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be a cheerful one. The sombre tone is meditative and beautiful, though. Despite being bleak it's immersive and musical and I'm ultimately left feeling hopeful and refreshed. A beautifully restrained little slab of melancholy here. It's on tasty thick vinyl that's white with peachy specks like an orange Maoam and there's a download and the packaging's lovely too.
Willamette may be an unfamiliar name but its members are no newbies; a side-project by the brothers Chong,
better known to ambience chasers as Northern, whose album Drawn (Infraction - INFX 024) warmed our ears back in 2007. For
Willamette the brothers are joined by Joseph Edward (Automobile, Swift), with contributions by cellist, Danny Norbury.
Self-describing as 'minimal works for tape, silence, voice and various stringed instrumentation' and 'romantic music
for the old and lackluster,' they operate at the interstices of space and volume, quasi-classical cadences offering
a distinctly austere nostalgia. The project started several years ago and now sees an LP release in Echo Park.
"your music brings various images in my mind. so calm, so sad and so beautiful. best wishes from tokyo..."
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