Snow Palms - Origin and Echo ((Vinyl))

Snow Palms - Origin and Echo ((Vinyl))

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Snow Palms - Origin and Echo ((Vinyl))
  • Snow Palms - Origin and Echo ((Vinyl))
  • Snow Palms - Origin and Echo ((Vinyl))
Snow Palms - Origin and Echo ((Vinyl))

Snow Palms - Origin and Echo ((Vinyl))

£3.98 £19.90
David Sheppard first conceived Snow Palms as a vehicle for music playedon mallet instruments (metallophones, glockenspiels, xylophones, marimbas,etc), devices that have featured intermittently across almost two decades-worthof the multi-instrumentalists miscellaneous collaborative projects thatinclude State River Widening, Ellis Island Sound, The Wisdom of Harry andPhelan-Sheppard, among a host of others. Snow Palms 2012 debut album Intervals won a sheaf of approving noticesfor its ineffably cinematic blend of polyrhythmic percussion and richly melodicorchestration, partly achieved in collaboration with arranger-composerChristopher Leary (aka Ochre). Two years in the making, the follow-up builds onthe foundations of its predecessor, with a heavy quotient of metallophones,glockenspiels and marimbas at its core, but largely eschews the latterschamber arrangements in favour of soaring synth-scapes and a palette ofspectral ambient and electronic textures. Despite that, Origin and Echo is a more performative record than wasIntervals, its eleven organic, kinetic pieces meticulously constructed bySheppard from initial percussive skeletons largely essayed instinctively, infree time, without click-tracks and with almost no guitar. The album is looselypredicated on themes of mirroring and rebounding, whether physical ormetaphorical, inspired by everything from the gravity-defying parabolas ofspace flight to patterns of human migration and feelings of dÈj‡ vu summoned bynostalgic journeys.   The results are, by turns, hypnotic (the dreamy, tensile WhiteShadows), symphonic (the ever-spiralling, near-anthemic Circling),propulsive (the inexorably escalating Rite), immersive (the harp-caressedtintabulations of You Are Here) and poignant (Vostoks aching cosmic synthevocations, the mysterioso soundtrack undulations of Black Snow&). Along theway, there are nods to the film scores of Thomas Newman, the minimalelectronics of Simon Fisher-Turner, John Luther Adams vibraphone-based chamberpiece In a Treeless Place, Only Snow, and several works by Japanesecomposers, especially those of Shimizu Yasuaki, Midori Takada and RyuichiSakamoto.   While the album is mostly the work of David Sheppard working alone or intandem with producer Giles Barrett, it also features cameos from previous SnowPalms collaborator Christopher Leary (synthesisers), alongside Emma Winston(Omnichord), Lauri Wuolio (cupola drum) and Village Green label-mate AngËleDavid-Guillou (keyboards). It arrives two years after Sheppards last majorrelease, his debut solo album, 2015s Vertical Land, which attracted some ofthe best reviews of his career (An immersive journey into rhythmic motion andvibrant, transportive texture, said MOJO; More entrancing than anything he'srecorded to date, opined Uncut).
  • Internal ID: JITRE
  • Format Detail: LP
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  • Genre: Dance & Electronic

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