Description:	7" on Immune - BACK IN!
	Format:	7" (vinyl)
	Genre(s):	Neoclassical
	Label:	Immune
	Price:	£6.49
	Availability:	Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

5
...according to our Brian on 18 June 2009.

I find strings to be the most emotive instrument in the pantheon of orchestral instruments. You don't cry from hearing the sound of a tuba do ya? Rafael Anton Irisarri had an album out on Miasmah in '07 and now the slothlike neo-classical genius has managed to muster up enough new material in 2 years to fill both sides of a 7" single. That's no criticism BTW, I'm impressed somebody has the restraint & high quality control to not put out CDrs every 5 hours like the many working in the ambient/noise spheres. 'Hope & Past Desires' is a thing of incredible beauty with the occasional "typewriter glitch" noise being the only constant amongst the swathes of dream-like strings, gently soaring & swooping like melancholy doves. 'Watching As She Reels' adopts a wistful piano & emotive jingle approach with occasional mournful snatches of string section panning in & out. A full album of this stuff'd have me on the floor in tears so I'm glad he's kept it brief. Thankyou Thrill Jockey, the pleasure has been all mine!

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What their label says...

7” – IMMUNE003
Hopes And Past Desires
Watching As She Reels

• ‘Hopes And Past Desires’ features two brand new
tracks from Irisarri and clocks in at nearly 12
minutes.
• This is his first new material since his debut
full-length ‘Daydreaming’  released on
Norwegian label Miasmah in 2007.
• The 7” is limited to 500 copies worldwide and
comes in a proper heavy stock full-color jacket.
• Rafael has another project called The Sight Below
and recently released the album ‘Glider’ on Ghostly
International.
• ‘Hopes and Past Desires’ was recorded in early
2008 in both Seattle, WA and Manchester, UK.
• The string arrangements of Danny Norbury
appear on the A side while Nan Schwarz lends
cello to side B.
• Will appeal to fans of Johann Johannsson and
Sylvain Chaveau.