Snowblink - Inner Classics - VINYL LP

Snowblink - Long Live [VINYL LP] date 03/15/2011

David Sheppard first conceived Snow Palms as a vehicle for music played on mallet instruments (metallophones, glockenspiels, xylophones, marimbas, etc), devices that have featured intermittently across almost two decades-worth of the multi-instrumentalist's miscellaneous collaborative projects that include State River Widening, Ellis Island Sound, The Wisdom of Harry and Phelan-Sheppard, among a host of others. Snow Palms' 2012 debut album Intervals won a sheaf of approving notices for it's ineffably cinematic blend of polyrhythmic percussion and richly melodic orchestration, partly achieved in collaboration with arranger-composer Christopher Leary (aka Ochre). Two years in the making, the follow-up builds on the foundations of it's predecessor, with a heavy quotient of metallophones, glockenspiels and marimbas at it's core, but largely eschews the latter's chamber arrangements in favour of soaring synth-scapes and a palette of spectral ambient and electronic textures.

Vinyl LP pressing. Originally released in 2001 to popular success, 'Classical Chillout' was as well-known for it's iconic cover artwork as it was for it's innovative selection of music. A skilful blend of traditional classical pieces - many known from film and television - programmed alongside genre-defying 'modern classics' - from movie themes, club classics to modern minimalism (more recently defined as 'neoclassical'). Fast-forward 18 years and Classical Chillout has been given a 2019 makeover - many of the great tracks you know and love from the original album alongside fresh new sounds in keeping with the original album concept. Available for the first time on vinyl, 'Classical Chillout' is back!