ASC - Loss [MC] 2024 эмбиент ред. США, ограниченный тираж 50 экземпляров, новый

ASC Loss MC nowa kaseta limitowana 50 kopii

Format: cassette limited to 50 copies

Cat: PITP 37CS

Released: 14 Mar 24

Genre: Ambient/Drone

• 1., The Weight Of The World 04:08, ,
• 2., Sensory Disintegration 09:25, ,

• 3., What More Can Be Said 04:37, ,
• 4., Begin Again 06:57, ,
• 5., Fleeting Elation 08:00, ,
• 6., Passing Of Time 03:18, ,
• 7., Song For Christine 06:26, ,
• 8., Permanence 07:18, ,
• 9., Tears In Rain 06:56, ,

about

There is a wooden platform overlooking the marsh at the halfway point of this trail, just the same as it’s been for years. One innocuous autumn afternoon you lean against its railing for a photograph that your companion insists on capturing because of that perfect peach light in the distant cirrus. 4:23pm. The creaky waist-high beam gives way just a bit, loosened by seasonal damp, and you startle slightly but find your footing with a well-trained portrait smile. The image is forever catalogued behind the lens and you move on along the decaying birches, reminded that tomorrow is not a guarantee.

ASC (aka James Clements) brings us Loss in its most heart-rending and therapeutic form in his new LP for Past Inside the Present following decades of genre-fluid releases on Auxiliary, A Strangely Isolated Place and many others.

All through the cavernous chapters of Loss are heavy mists, quiet bird calls and softly ponderous chord progressions. Especially in the field recordings of “Tears in Rain” there are echoes of the old photographic experiment in which a swath of subjects is shown the same facial expression and asked, “What is this person feeling or experiencing?” An identical image can yield assessments ranging from dread to bliss, exhaustion to relief, joyous wonder to abject...  more