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Cassette + Digital Album
Limited-edition bumper package containing a cassette and unique photograph from an edition of 60 by Susie Whaites, plus a talk tape (with early pressings) featuring Whaites and Parker in 'conversation'.
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'Storage' [SLP018], the ravishing debut release from British composer Aaron Parker, collects five works attentively compiled over a period of almost three years. Parker’s pieces are as much ‘environments’ as ‘compositions’: rich ecosystems where strata of fibrous acoustic and electronic sound are overlaid in undulating cycles at once mechanical and utterly natural.
Lead cut ‘Warehouse’ is a substantial ensemble piece dating from 2012, where lurching winds, balletic metal percussion, and chiming harps curiously assemble around a supple violin line and a dripping metronomic glitch. Though it owes a debt to the mammoth, chugging minimalism of ‘70s Glass and Reich, ‘Warehouse’ is far from brutal, and exudes a lushness more akin to the environmental works of Zimoun and Chris Watson.
'Storage''s accompanying works - which take their titles simply from the GPS location and date on which they were completed - foreground electronic over acoustic processes. Parker’s looped scrapes, sighing machines, and snatches of field recording reverberate in strange, artificial acoustics. These uncannily melodic pieces distort both temporal and spatial perception, and the influence of Cage, Eno, and Giuseppe Ielasi loom large.
Parker is as indebted to visual ruminations upon landscape - Larry Gottheim, Norman Ackroyd, Gerhard Richter, Julian Opie - as sonic ones. Fittingly, 'Storage'’s completion owes much to an intense period of collaboration with visual artist Susie Whaites. One of a limited series of 60 photographs by Whaites is contained within each copy of this limited release, which comes paired with a cassette, the full digital audio files, and a bonus talk tape with early pressings.
credits
released February 15, 2016
Music by Aaron Parker
Mastering by Rupert Clervaux
Artwork by Susie Whaites
During the final days of writing my thesis I listened to this album on repeat for hours at a time. It was like being suspended in one eternal moment while all that changed around me were the ripples and eddies of a slowly meandering river. catharina_bee