Ethan Rose - Spinning Pieces

On the heels of last year's celebrated Ceiling Songs debut full length by Portland , Oregon electronic musician Ethan Rose comes Spinning Pieces - a collation of nearly five years of small edition art object releases produced for locust music. The aptly titled collection chronicles one man's obsession with & magical approach to old mechanical noisemakers both big and little - from a carillon in California ("Singing Tower"), to the sounds of old player pianos ("The Dot & The Line") in a dusty Portland piano shop to modified music boxes ("The Miniature & Sea"). Ethan's approach and music exudes a deep compositional sense and inviting warmth that often eludes the cold & foreboding genre of electronic music. PRAISE "An enticing homemade album that used short sounds to create long ones. Flickering snippets of instruments overlap and accumulate to create restless but mellow collages that sound vaguely nostalgic" - The New York Times "Arguably the freshest thing you'll hear this year." - Punk Planet "The new record by Portland sound artist Ethan Rose would make Stockhausen proud. Made of broken music boxes, sampled birds & delicate piano melodies, these recordings are memorable for their heartfelt attention to detail" - xlr8r "Somehow a ghostly essence of nostalgia, yearning and a hard-to-describe otherness still seep out of these compositions" The Wire "A blissful soundtrack to enjoy just before you hit the pillow and dream of electric sheep. - paper thin walls "It's the sound of the world taking a well-deserved nap." -Music For Robots "It's remarkable how much Ethan gets out of so little; like doing beautiful photographs with a pinhole camera." Dream Magazine

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