[ambient, jazz] (2024) Earthen Sea - Recollection [FLAC] [DarkAngie]

    Earthen Sea – Recollection (2024)

Review by Paul Simpson:
Since signing with Kranky, Jacob Long's Earthen Sea project has played with the conventions of ambient and dub techno, slowing down the tempo and sometimes removing beats altogether, and incorporating household sounds on 2022's Ghost Poems. Recollection was created following an immersion into the ECM catalog, and Long had the idea of reconsidering Earthen Sea as a piano trio. He recorded live instrumentation, then chopped it up and sampled it, resulting in a spacious, dubby form of organic ambient jazz, sometimes recalling acid jazz acts like Red Snapper. Tracks such as "Another Space" sound like they're being performed in zero gravity, with trippy waves of effects floating around a supple yet steady rhythm. "Sunlit Leaving" is the most detached and druggy track here, with a rhythm which drags even as it feels like it's suspended in mid-air. "Neon Ruins" has a darker mood but also shines brightly in its own way. "Clear Photograph" is more relaxing downtempo with keyboards that hug like a warm blanket. "Cloudy Vagueness" and "Abstract, tell" both fittingly move away from trip-hop rhythms into more ambient terrain, with the latter actually being surprisingly suspenseful. The straightforward groove and calming keyboards of "White Sky" feel like a great relief in comparison. — AMG

Track List:
01 - Present Day
02 - Another Space
03 - Sunlit Leaving
04 - A Single Pub
05 - Neon Ruins
06 - Clear Photograph
07 - Cloudy Vagueness
08 - Abstract, Tell
09 - White Sky


Media Report:
Genre: ambient, jazz
Origin: New York, USA
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits
Compression mode: Lossless
Writing library: libFLAC 1.2.1 (UTC 2007-09-17)


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