Pulse Emitter - Tide Pools - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

With it's meditative tempos and enveloping guitar work by Michio Kurihara-'it's like this golden net,' Naomi said of his gorgeous, versatile playing-A Sky Record offers shelter from the squall. If it has the glow of a long-delayed reunion between friends, that's not accidental Kurihara hasn't traveled outside of Japan in some time, so Damon and Naomi hadn't recorded with him in nearly ten years. When they finally made it back to Japan in November 2019 for a brief tour, they were elated to book some time with Kurihara at the aptly named studio Peace Music. In those long stretches of quarantime, the tracks they returned from Japan with had distinct moods but not yet any lyrics. (Kurihara works best when trying to conjure a specific feeling or natural image-after all, he did once make a solo record, Sunset Notes, on which every song was based on a different sunset he'd witnessed...) How to write about the pandemic? How to not write about the pandemic? Naomi first struck upon the appropriate tone when re-reading the journals of one of her favorite abstract painters, Charles Burchfield. She arranged this found language into the lyrics of the iridescent 'Season Without Time,' which also became a tribute to a friend that she and Damon had lost in the last year. InchFrom there, the floodgates opened. The wistful and watery 'Midnight' (electrified, towards the end, by the slow screams of a Kurihara solo) conjures Naomi's nostalgia for youthful summers spent at Jones Beach, while the gentle current of 'Sailing By' pays homage to those ritualistic BBC Shipping Forecasts and the waltzing, quintessentially British theme song from which it takes it's name.Inch -Lindsay Zoladz. InchBack to make all your folk-pop dreams melt into the sunset.Inch -Rolling Stone

Portland-based composer / producer / synthesist Daryl Groetsch creates music under the name Pulse Emitter. Channeling his love and mastery of styles ranging from new age to Berlin school kosmische to drone to progressive electronic music, Groetsch crafts emotionally resonant synth pieces teeming with diverse melodic architectures and textural details. Dusk, his third on Hausu Mountain, joins a nearly two-decade long catalog of Pulse Emitter music that includes releases on labels like Aguirre Records, Constellation Tatsu, and NNA Tapes - along with a slate of self-releases of whispered ambient sketches under his given name and forays into the dungeon synth idiom under the moniker Endless Fog. Dusk shifts the dial of Groetsch's practice a few notches from the all-consuming drift captured on Swirlings towards a more hybridized strain of Pulse Emitter music that treats rhythm and harmonic complexity with equal importance to pure shimmering synth texture. His work bridges themes like the grandeur of the cosmos and the natural beauty of planet Earth with an exploration of the inner-space within the mind, resulting in excursions that prove just as personal to his experience as they are universal in scope.1) Cloudside Dwellings2) Temple in the Mountains3) Chrome Sky4) The Road to Thrax5) Fireflies6) Snow Diamonds7) Darkening Forest8) Mulch

The Pulse - The Pulse [COMPACT DISCS] date 01/19/2010