Claire Lynch - Crowd Favorites - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Claire Lynch - Friends for a Lifetime [COMPACT DISCS] date 05/05/1998

Electroacoustic composer and saxophonist Jason Sharp presents his third album on Constellation and first purely solo recording. Following two acclaimed albums composed around particular collaborators and guest players, Sharp conceived The Turning Centre Of A Still World as an interplay strictly bounded by his own body, his acoustic instrument, and his bespoke electronic rig. The result is Sharp's most lucid, poignant, integral work to date - a singular sonic exploration of human/machine calibration, interaction, expression and biofeedback. Using saxophones, foot-controlled bass pedals, and his own pulse - patched through a heart monitor routed to various signal paths that trigger modular synthesizers and samplers - Sharp paints harmolodic waves of glistening synthesis, pink noise and digitalia. Electronic Sound has called Sharp's work Inchmesmerizing, like Stars Of The Lid pursuing the Sun Ra Arkestra into an electricity substation.Inch His sound palette evokes fellow-travelers like Fennesz, Klaus Schulze, Tim Hecker, Ben Frost and Colin Stetson. This immersive, intensive, widescreen electronic album could sit comfortably as a stellar contribution to the space/sci-fi/synth soundtrack genre. But this is ultimately deeper, grittier, earthier stuff - pulsing with terrestrial granularity, charting subterranean geographies of the heart and soul. Deluxe 180gram vinyl includes four 12Inchx12Inch art prints of analog film stills by renowned experimental filmmaker Daïchi Saïto.

2016 album from the three time IBMA Female Vocalist of the Year award winner. On North By South, Claire Lynch pays homage to her favorite Canadian songwriters on a set of bluegrass and new acoustic tracks. After her recent marriage to a Canadian, Lynch began to dig into the vast catalog of songs written by Canadian songwriters and found the inspiration for this project. Working with Alison Brown in the producer's chair, she delivers stand out versions of Ron Sexsmith's InchCold Hearted WindInch with Jerry Douglas on dobro, the catchy InchKingdom ComeInch written by Old Man Luedecke featuring Bela Fleck (banjo) and Stuart Duncan (fiddle) and the gorgeous maritime ballad InchMolly MayInch written by Cape Breton's JP Cormier. Lynch also offers thoughtful reinterpretations of songs by Lynn Miles (InchBlack FlowersInch), Dave Francey (InchEmpty TrainInch) and Gordon Lightfoot (InchWorth BelievingInch) and contributes the lighthearted, self-penned InchMiloInch to the project.