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Skrow038: earthbreather - Forget the Sky

earthbreather - Forget the Sky

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With great pride do we present the debut of experimental, free-genre duo earthbreather.  A collaboration between Saffron Slumber and Ellipse, this non-geographically proximal pairing came to be, as these things are, via the internet.  In late 2008, Saffron Slumber began “remixing” by way of manipulation and de/reconstruction some brief guitar clips sent to him by Ellipse.  The latter, as well, began to perform similar mutations upon pieces created by the former.  As this process continued, the songs would evolve into something entirely new, and the process itself became progressively more collaborative.  An unwritten manifesto took form between the two artists to ignore the perceived boundaries of genre conventions and to simply create.

On Forget the Sky, earthbreather experiment with various aural textures and explore atmospheres dark and light, concrete and ethereal, consonant and dissonant, all in flowing and relatively structurally free compositional forms.  The result is an album that is both cohesive and varied throughout its approximate 50 minute duration.

Headphones are suggested and encouraged.  Please join us.

Tracklisting:

1. Talk in Blue (10:34)
2. Fields of Desiccant (9:12)
3. Ice Throne of Ullr (8:34)
4. Pulling On Melting Glass (5:02)
5. Black Fires Burn Gently (8:28)
6. Craters (7:52)

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Tags: 5.25.2011, ambient, ascension, cleveland, drone, earthbreather, ellipse, experimental, forget the sky, free composition, guitar, ohio, oregon, piano, portland, post rock, saffron slumber

2 Comments to Skrow038: earthbreather - Forget the Sky

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   [...] work ignoring “the perceived boundaries of genre conventions and to simply create.” Forget the Sky (skrow!media) is Earthbreather’s complex experimental album drenched in drones and [...]
Pulling on Melting Glass | Acts of Silence on June 29th, 2011
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