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Ellipse - After the Sun
Ethereal sonorities in a shadowy berth, a meeting place for things both dark and light. Here are our dualities investigated, awash in colour and grey, claustrophobic in an infinite space: the locus of a soul.
Ellipse presents us with three pieces for electric guitar that are at times quietly introspective, and at others screaming at the heavens with fire and futility. Please adorn your ears and explore.
Tracklisting:
- Becoming Empyreal (18:22)
- The Immeasurable Breadth of Night (9:59)
- An Ocean Upon Us (23:17)
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Ellipse / Saffron Slumber - Translucence
Awash in a ceaseless cloud of lost memories, reaching for light. We find ourselves in a sea of our own reckoning, clutching driftwood to our bared breasts, a subtle heat radiating from within that warms the cool mists around us. The atmosphere thickens, becomes as a gelatin which slows our existence and reflects us from within until, finally, we are encased in an unfrozen ice of our deepest fears and desires; static, yet internally vivified. We shatter into numberless shards, waltzing silently in scintillating bliss as we dissipate into the air. The cycle begins anew.
So it is that we present the first (and certainly not the last) split release from Skrow! fellows Ellipse and Saffron Slumber. It showcases arguably some of the greatest work of two fine artists of complimentary mentality and style while exploring a vast musical space of mystique and airy melancholia. Assume an appropriately fetal position and adorn your ears with a suitable binaural apparatus. Surround yourself in translucence, close your eyes and peer through.
Tracklisting:
- Ellipse - Drifting Endless Ethereal (11:33)
- Saffron Slumber - Viscosity (4:01)
- Saffron Slumber - Glass Variation (Silicon Dioxide) (5:46)
Exciting things on the horizon.
Skrow!Media is pleased to announce Most of Me, the forthcoming debut from creator of melodic progressive electronica and occasional chiptune, Nario (see video above). The album proper will likely drop sometime in November. You should check it out and stuff. Also coming around the bend, we have new material from Cigarettes & Clip-Art, entitled Motivational Poster, slated for the end of the year, and all kinds of good shit sometime next year, including new stuff from Beardslicer, Ellipse, Saffron Slumber, Grimbeard, the debut concept album from Soudou and its accompanying surrealist novel, and a very exciting collaboration between Saffron Slumber and Ellipse which will be known as earthbreather.
Skrow! explodes. Soon. Keep an eye out for the audio shrapnel that results.
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Ellipse - Abandoned
Continuing in quick succession the spirit of rendering the old as new, today finds us with Ellipse’s Abandoned. The title of the EP is a double entendre: each of the four pieces is part of a concept that revolves around the departure from Earth in favour of finding home on other heavenly bodies; at the same time, the title refers to the fact that this project was initiated two years ago and was intended to be considerably longer. These were, in fact, Ellipse’s first attempts at music of an ambient nature, and simply fell to the wayside as the artist progressed away from the new agey style you will find within.
So, in the spirit of rebirth, here it is. Don some headphones and turn your gaze heavenward.
Tracklisting:
- Exodus From a Blue Planet (6:29)
- The Destitution of Ashen Canyons (6:52)
- Sunrise Over the Umber Plains (7:05)
- Golden Cities in the Troposphere (6:08)
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Ellipse - This Is Not a Straight Line
One electric guitar, infinite delay. 9 improvised loop experiments made over two quiet days in August. Lovely cover art has been painted by Kevin Stephens.
Tracklisting:
- A Vascular Discourse (4:27)
- Harmonium (5:19)
- Glass Fortress (8:24)
- Undulations (3:45)
- Naked Under the Stars (7:31)
- Glacial Velocity (11:34)
- Eyes Like Rain (8:15)
- The Human Orrery (5:49)
- Bathe In Light (8:38)