Pan American - Patience Fader - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The glacial distillation of Pan•American aka Mark Nelson's Inchromantic minimalismInch achieves unique fruition on his latest Kranky collection, The Patience Fader. A suite of solo guitar instrumentals accented with lap steel, harmonica, and twilit atmospherics, the strings smear and sparkle in elegant, windswept swells, a guitar mode once described by Brian Eno as InchDuane Eddy playing Erik Satie.Inch These are elegies as much as songs, lulling and lilting in private currents of beauty and bereavement. Nelson speaks of the notion of Inchlighthouse music,Inch radiance cast from a stable vantage point, sending Incha signal to help others through rocks and dangerous currents.Inch Composed during the highly isolated summer of 2020, the pieces took shape as meditations on Inchroots and mourning, trying to connect with those deep hidden rivers that lead to a greater communality.Inch There's something ageless, scarred, and American about this music, both displaced and devotional, the ghost of rust belts and dust bowls looming in a horizon of deepening dusk. Album Tracks 1. Swimming in a Western Motel 2. Outskirts, Dreamlit 3. Corniel 4. The North Line 5. Baitshop 6. Harmony Conversion 7. Memorizing, Memorizing 8. Just a Story 9. Nightwater 10. Wooster, Ohio 11. Almost Grown 12. Grounded