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Balmorhea Clear Language

Balmorhea — Clear Language (Sept. 22, 2017)

             Balmorhea — Clear Language (Sept. 22, 2017)   Balmorhea — Clear Language (Sept. 22, 2017)••›♣♠     Balmorhea’s rich and layered music continues to be simultaneously concise and complex, uniting a collection of textures and space into one genre~defying landscape.Fotka uživatele Ben Tais Amundssen.Location: Austin, Texas, U.S.A.
Genre: Post Rock, Ambient
Album release: Sept. 22, 2017
Record Label: Western Vinyl
Duration:     37:54
Tracks:
01. Clear Language     3:13
02. Sky Could Undress     4:08
03. Dreamt     3:59
04. Slow Stone     6:36
05. Ecco     2:15
06. Behind The World     4:07
07. Waiting Itself     3:35
08. 55     3:53
09. All Flowers     2:23
10. First Light     3:45
℗ 2017 Western Vinyl
Current members:
≡    Aisha Burns — violin, vocals
≡    Rob Lowe — guitar, piano
≡    Michael Muller — guitar, bass guitar
≡    Jeff Olson — drums, vibraphone
≡    Sam Pankey — double bass, bass guitar
≡    Nick Soberon — cello, guitar
Credits:
≡    Written and performed by: Rob Lowe and Michael Muller
≡    Violin and Viola: Aisha Burns
≡    Trumpet on Slow Stone: Ephraim Owens
≡    Drums on Slow Stone: Wim Coppers
≡    Recording: David Boyle, Church House Studios, Austin, TX
≡    Mastering: Joe Lambert, JLM New York, NYFotka uživatele Ben Tais Amundssen.
Description:
≡    Founded by Rob Lowe and Michael Muller in 2006, return with a collection of ten brand new songs that herald a return to their minimal roots.
≡    One of the ten “elegant, spacious gestures” that Clear Language contains is the album’s title track, which was released as an advance single. Clocking in at three minutes, the song is carried by two pianos; one playing swirling quadruplets interlaced by subtle triplets, while the other piano alternates between a honky~tonk sounding salvo and smooth chords. Finding beauty in simplicity — the first minute of Clear Language is perhaps the most beautiful part of the song. This small moment of rhythmic repose is then lost in layerings of strings and a distinct electric guitar that function as harbingers of the dawn. The instruments then fade out, returning to the cricket~filled ambient passage that opened the song, leaving the undersigned more than curious about what the rest of the album holds.
About:
≡    When Rob Lowe and Michael Muller founded Balmorhea in 2006, their goals and expectations were modest, as they created music to share with friends and family, and slowly developed a following in their hometown of Austin and beyond. They couldn’t have anticipated that their music would take them on multiple tours of the US and Europe, and even to Asia. Nor did they expect the praise their work would receive from such well~respected publications as Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic among myriad others, and that their work would become quietly ubiquitous, doing the emotional heavy~lifting for national TV commercials, films, radio and cable programs, and countless documentaries.
≡    Lowe and Muller had developed a wordless language with a seemingly limitless potential to stir the listener’s soul. Over the course of 5 full~length albums and a 7” EP, the duo pushed their work to its outer bounds, concluding the first chapter of their career with their maximalist, genre~leaping full~length Stranger (2012). Now five years later they return with their most fully realized album to~date, Clear Language.
≡    Almost a decade on the road, near~constant musical output, and shifting creative priorities caused Lowe and Muller, to soberly assess the band’s future. What, in the form of Balmorhea, was there left to say? And did they have the energy to say it? To answer that question the duo decamped to their east Austin studio, where they worked simply and with restraint, letting intuition guide them as they molded 30~plus  raw ideas into the 10 elegant, spacious gestures that comprise Clear Language.
≡    Co~produced and engineered by David Boyle in Austin’s Church House Studios, Clear Language finds the duo returning to the simplicity of their roots. They eschewed complexity for complexity’s sake, allowing a watery, sand~hued mood to settle over their use of analog synthesizers, piano, vibraphone, electric and bass guitar, violin, viola, field recordings, and, for the first time in the band’s history, trumpet, performed by Tedeschi Trucks’ Ephraim Owens. A relaxed, clear~eyed sense of reflection flows gracefully through the album as these two old friends transmit unfettered meaning through simple sonic gestures that resonate with the cosmos as much as they echo the pulse of a human heart. In a culture dominated by the loudest, ostentatious voices, Lowe and Muller continue to prove the power and importance of restraint and minimalism.
≡    This fall, in cities across the U.S. and Europe, Balmorhea will bring Clear Language to life with a full band of multi~instrumentalists, and the ensemble will be enshrouded in a light/video projection that’s being developed to mirror the emotional tone of Clear Language. Audiences can also expect to hear classic works from All is Wild, All is Silent, Stranger, Constellations — the spareness of which invites comparisons to Clear Language — and more from Balmorhea’s dense catalog, dating back to 2006.
Discography:
≡    Balmorhea (2007)
≡    Rivers Arms (2008)
≡    Tour EP (2008)
≡    All Is Wild, All Is Silent (2009)
≡    Constellations (2010)
≡    Candor / Clamor (2010 7” Vinyl) (2010)
≡    Live at Sint~Elisabethkerk (2011)
≡    Stranger (2012)
≡    HEIR EP (2014)
≡    Clear Language (2017)
Past members:
≡    Mike Bell — drums
≡    Bruce Blay — drums
≡    Travis Chapman — double bass, bass guitar
≡    Kendall Clark — drums, vibraphone
≡    Jacob Glenn~Levin — bass guitar
≡    Nicole Kern — cello
≡    Erin Lance — cello
≡    Dylan Rieck — cello
≡    Taylor Tehan — drums
≡    Dave Wiley — cello
Website: https://balmorheamusic.com/
Label: http://westernvinyl.com/shop/wv150
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Balmorheamusic
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/balmorhea
Bandcamp: https://balmorhea.bandcamp.com/track/clear-language
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