Colin Stetson - All This I Do for Glory - VINYL LP

All this I do for glory is a reasoning and exploration of the machinations of ambition and legacy, an examination of the concepts of afterlife, and the first half of a doomed love story in the model of the Greek tragedies. As a narra- tive, it exists temporally somewhere between 2015's InchNever were the way she wasInch (with Sarah Neufeld) and the 1st volume of the NHW Trilogy. With this, his first solo outing since 2013's InchTo See More LightInch, Colin Stetson ventures into territory both familiar and strange. Here still, is the dogmatically stripped down approach to performance and capture (all songs recorded live with no overdubs or loops) but there is an immediacy to the album that belies a more invasive and thorough miking of the various instruments being utilized and a seeming influence drawn from the early nineties electronica of artists like Aphex Twin and Autechre, evident in the more pointed role played by the instruments' many percus- sive elements. There are ancestries, motivic and timbral, woven through these six songs that plainly anchor them within the shared universe of his Trilogy, though the overall experience is one of extreme intimacy, the sounds and imagery more tangible and immersive than previous offerings. The brief and brutal InchIn the clinchesInch recalls (or presages) echoes of songs like InchJudgesInch, though now feeling like one has fallen down the bell of Stetson's ancient bass sax- ophone itself. InchSpindriftInch, crystalline and serene, calls to mind the ambient works of Aphex Twin, while InchBetween Water and WindInch with it's InchImmigrant SongInch swagger, relentlessly carves it's way into the bedrock here, paving the way with an increasing focus on the minute and the minimal, with a deepened sense of patience shared by most of the album's six tracks. Engineered and mixed by Stetson himself, this album represents a decidedly i