Lithics - Mating Surfaces - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

After introducing themselves to the world with 2016's InchBorrowed FloorsInch (Water Wing) and throwing down the gauntlet with 2018's InchMating SurfacesInch on Kill Rock Stars, Lithics make the jump to Trouble In Mind for InchTower of AgeInch. InchTower of AgeInch bristles with invention, wedging lyrical Dadaism into right angles of rhythmic minimalism. This is music in ellipses.A circular communication and a fusion of decades worth of musical insight into a singular refraction of thought & sound. Guitars plunk and scratch, and rhythms pulse and syncopate tightly wound around an imagist's philosophy to Inchuse absolutely no word that does not contribute to the presentation.Inch The band's austere approach to composition and wordplay elevates them aboveand beyond bands seeking similar sounds; it's not that they use less; it's HOW they use less. InchTower of AgeInch is released on CD, black vinyl, limited TRI-COLOR vinyl (while supplies last) and available digitally via most digital retailers and streaming platforms.

Ceci n'est pas une flûte is a Magritte-like calembour, representing the desire, with this , to propose a synesthetic listening experience within a game of sound mirages, illusions and allusions. We pursued this intriguing goal from the project's conception, starting from the idea that an album recording implies the added value of being a sort of music microscopy, by using a rich and accurate miking together with a fine sound processing, where both the electronic tracks and the ambience itself could be treated as chamber music partners of the flute. The recording session was meant to deliver the composition with a surgical rendition that would have been impossible in a live performance, within an aesthetical frame that is not an end in itself but wants to deliver the polysemy of the contemporary language at it's best, where nothing is ever as it seems. In fact, while deconstructing every convention about music, the fantasy of contemporary composers throughout the last century has taken over the sound of the flute, giving it a brand new creative and syncretic power. Breaking the chronological limits and reconnecting the timeline extremities, the flute is once again a magic stick recovering a shamanic allure from the dawn of time, now steeped in the expressive and technological possibilities of modern times.

Tara - Irish Songs Paddy Dreaming [COMPACT DISCS] date 11/25/2008