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The latest collection by Cascadian resident Loscil aka Scott Morgan is a stunning meditation on light, shade, and decay, sourced from a single three-minute composition performed by a 22-piece string orchestra in Budapest. The subsequent recording was lathe-cut on to a 7-inch, then Inchscratched and abused to add texture and color,Inch from which the entirety of Clara was sampled, shape-shifted, and sculpted. Despite their limited palette, the compositions summon a sense of the infinite, swelling and swimming through luminous depths. Certain tracks percolate over narcoleptic metronomes while others slowdive in shimmering shadowplay, sounding at times like some noir music of the spheres.Although Morgan's compositional premise for Clara was quite defined, the resultant work is wonderfully opaque and spatial, equal parts rich and lurking, traced in fine-grained gradients and radiant silences. The album's title comes from the Latin for 'bright' a fitting muse for this masterpiece of celestial electric currents and interstitial ether, where Inchshadows are amplified and bright spots dimmed.Inch Album Tracks 1. Lux 2. Lumina 3. Lucida 4. Stella 5. Vespera 6. Sol 7. Aura 8. Flamma 9. Orta 10. Clara
