Earthen Sea - Recollection - VINYL LP

Jacob Long's fourth full-length for Kranky began as a notion to reimagine Earthen Sea as a Inchpiano trio,Inch inspired by a year-long immersion in the ECM tag catalog, but the compositions soon grew more complex. Elements were chopped and resampled, then layered with bass, drums, percussion, and additional keys. The result is a fusion of live band acoustics and downtempo loops, sculpted into nine smoke-and-mirror dubs of fractured jazz, soft-focus noir, and trip-hop dust Recollection.Like the title implies, Long's playing and production share a mood of pensive movement, shuffling and rippling like uncertain memories at strange hours. From looming fog (InchPresent Day,Inch InchNeon RuinsInch) and shadowy breaks (InchAnother Space,Inch InchCloudy VaguenessInch) to rosy glows (InchClear PhotographInch) and smeared reverie (InchWhite SkyInch), Recollection deftly wields it's palette of gradient color and subdued states of beauty. His is a music of reduction and reflection, kinetic but oblique, attuned to the silhouettes of sound. Album Tracks 1. 1. Present Day 2. 2. Another Space 3. 3. Sunlit Leaving 4. 4. a Single Pub 5. 5. Neon Ruins 6. 6. Clear Photograph 7. 7. Cloudy Vagueness 8. 8. Abstract, Tell 9. 9. White Sky