Noveller - Glacial Glow - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Sarah Lipstate creates miniature musical world, places that you feel like you'll never leave as long as the record is playing. The soaring, evocative new album from Noveller, the solo instrumental venture of composer and filmmaker Sarah Lipstate. FANTASTIC PLANET is a journey through eclectic sonic terrain, blending rich waves of synthesizer with soaring cinematic guitar lines, guiding the listener through Noveller's most diverse and compelling to date. Album Tracks 1. Into the Dunes 2. No Unholy Mountain 3. Rubicon 4. Sisters 5. Concrete Dreams 6. Pulse Point 7. In February 8. Growing 9. The Ascent

Portuguese composer Afonso Ferreira a.k.a. Farwarmth is a keen collaborator, as part of the duos HRNS, PURGA and the collective 00 NEKYIA. His debut album for Planet Mu is perhaps his most ambitious collaborative work yet. Built up over four years, it's sources are recordings of friends and family in improvised sessions with cello, flute and accordion with Afonso on keyboards from the time he was on an artists residency in 2018.Afonso's music is made by carefully processing and rendering his source material and he talks about the compositions in terms of emotional resonance, the construction of Inchconnections between time, people and soundInch and the sessions which make up this album being about Inchemotional exchange, that gave away to something I did not imagine I could've reached alone.Inch He describes the album as Inchrooted in the earth, but aiming for the heavens in an endless search to breathe enough air.Inch The music here can seem alien; recognisable sounds turned unrecognisable, channeling raw emotion by building layers of sound in unusual ways into huge, energetic sculptures.The album opens with shard-like chords and twinkling melodies as if the sound is being coaxed into life. The track titles also suggest an almost uncanny onset starting with 'Shadows In The Air', moving on to the open blasts of chords in 'Below The White Sky', and the strange intermittent static of  'Across The Black Sand'. These titles all refer to Afonso's experience of being alone on the beach where he lives, making sense of the endless winters. It's not until 'Into The Grey Sea' that the bare instruments reveal themselves, freely weaving over each other in a strange dark tapestry, shot through with shimmering sounds that seem to come from distant shores. 'To Heft The Weight Of Memory' lands somewhere between the mystical sadness of Arvo Pärt and the fragmented beauty of Fennesz.

After the success of InchHinterlandInch in 2005, the band stretched forward to show a truer picture of the band's inner nature. Many fans were asking for the early demo they did in 2003, and these tracks were re-recorded with the full band for InchAfterglowInch. The strong influence of black metal can be heard both in the surprising power and aggression of some sections, as well as the structure and tonality of many of the riffs. Paradoxically, InchAfterglowInch was also a more dyed-in-the-wool proggy prog rock album, with it's epic-length compositions and detours into renaissance and baroque music.InchAfterglowInch was also a well-received record, scratching the itch that fans had felt for those early demos, and cementing the band's position as a leading light among InchretroInch prog bands.InchAfterglowInch was the start for one of the best progressive rock bands that has emerged in the early 2000's, and is now finally available again on CD and limited coloured vinyl.1. The Haywain2. Imperial Winter White3. Interlude4. In Taberna5. Armoury Album Tracks 1. Haywain 2. Imperial Winter White 3. Interlude 4. In Taberna 5. Armoury