‘Bird’s Nest’ by Christina Carter

A 10+ minute idyll of unassuming grace. Previously: Lady Friend.

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Audience - ” Creek Dreams II “

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This stunning ambient-electronic piece comes in the form of a mystified creek dream, produced by a young St.Louis soul. It’s weirdly placed vocal samples remind me of the sounds on beautiful wave ‘74 by Blithe Field.

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This kid is 17. What. Also those piano phrases are very reminiscent of Jon Brion’s Synecdoche, NY score no?

‘Lady Friend’ by Christina Carter

Originally released as a limited edition cassette, Christina Carter’s 2008 recording Texas Blues Working has been given new life as a double LP and this is the last cut; an evocative 21 minute(!) devotion that sparsely oscillates between two guitar notes and a handful of words. The resulting effect is something akin to an incantation or a song of mourning. Christina, a seasoned experimental musician who currently boasts 34 releases to her name, has the right kind of authoritative drive and tuneful imagination to fill the entire runtime, even when occasionally forgoing timing and harmony altogether. There just isn’t anything out there quite like it.

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‘The Falling Age’ by Julia Holter

This gives creepy Lady in the Radiator vibes no? The stuff of nightmares. I’m in love.

L.A.-based composer Julia Holter creates incredible music full of collaged emotion and persistent decay. She’s currently singing and playing the keys with Nite Jewel, and while Julia’s music has a similar gauzy feel, her sense of rhythm and pace are free and organic. Metric restriction seems deliberately absent, replaced by invisible LFOs of intensity and exploration. “The Falling Age” is an amazing track. It’s nine minutes of ambient-classical doom, commencing with low, detuned drones and an opening melodic narration, then swelling into longing waves of live chamber instrumentation. It’s just pure orchestral anguish, minute after minute of breathing suspension and release. Eventually, the track decays, returning to the drone cocoon from which it began. The combination of artificial/actual, of synth moments with live orchestration (the middle section is actually a piece for 13 instruments that Holter wrote at CalArts) is disconcerting and gorgeous, revealing undercurrents of black metal ambience.

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‘[Gold 01]’ by Sun Watcher

Bliss.