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1. THE BARE EARTH
2. THE INCANDESCENT WANDERER
3. THE OTHER SHORE
4. CUCKOO SYMPOSIUM
5. AN ILLUMINATED AFTERTHOUGHT
6. MOUNTAIN MUSIC
7. THE DEATH OF AN ANCIENT STAR
8. THE SWALLOWING SEA
9. A QUIET PLACE
10. ELEPHANT ARCHITECTURE
11. BETWEEN THE RIVER BANKS
12. DESERT FUGUE
13. THE CADENCE OF LUNAR TIME
14. RODAN CRATER
15. THREE DIMENSIONAL MEMORIES
16. MOTH
17. ANCIENT MUSIC
18. LIFE CYCLES
19. A FAREWELL UNDER THE PALO VERDE TREE |
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| Description: | Cinema is baked into Krassnerâ??s musical DNA, and these recordings sometimes veer from evoking a lost psychedelic sci-fi flick to a desolate western, or from a horror film to a sun-dappled romance. Listening closely, you hear the years in these songs, but also the freshness of a brand new moment. Though one could read the title Ancient Music as a cheeky display of Krassnerâ??s self-deprecating humor, listening to its majestic swells and spooky corners, it becomes clear that Krassner means it the other way too. These are songs that have somehow always existed. And somehow, they always will. - Michael Krassner found himself in the desert. Though his long running instrumental collective Boxhead Ensemble began in Los Angeles and cut its teeth on the Chicago improv/art rock scene of the late ?90s and 2000s, the forthcoming double album Ancient Music is rooted deeply in the Sonoran Desert, where Krassner lives the unassuming life of a restaurateur and has raised his family. In its arid washes of sound and dirt under foot sonic surrealism?reminiscent of Brian Eno, Roger Eno, and Daniel Lanois?s Apollos: Atmospheres and Soundtracks, William Basinski disintegrating a Morricone score, or even the sand dune new age of Kevin Braheny Fortune, Michael Stearns, and Steve Roach?s Desert Solitaire?you hear the sound of growth at its own, natural pace. Slowly assembled over the course of more than 20 years, it?s a defining statement from the Boxhead collective, overseen by an artisan craftsmen who has carefully burnished its sounds down to the geologic essentials.
?The early days reflected the grittiness of that city,? Krassner says of Boxhead?s start, when characters like Jim O?Rourke, Jeff Parker, Edith Frost, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Bonnie ?Prince? Billy, Doug McCombs (Brokeback, Tortoise), Scott Tuma (Sold American), Ken Vandermark, Dirty Three members Mick Turner and Jim White, and a pre-Wilco Glen Kotche (not to mention Mr. Wilco himself, Jeff Tweedy) appeared on Krassner?s early soundtrack recordings for director Braden King and Laura Moya. But when Krassner decamped to the heart of Phoenix, Arizona, a metropolitan sprawl in the heart of the desert, where his music began to take on a different tone, informed by the luminous quality of Southwestern light he found out west. ?There?s something in the light out here,? he says.
Working with longtime collaborators like Tim Rutili of Califone, Wil Hendricks, Jakob Koller, Robin Vining, Keith Kelly on woodwinds, Joshua Hill, and Laraine Kaizer-Viazovtsev, Krassner oversaw sessions between 2001-2021 in Los Angeles and Finland, but primarily worked on the album in the 7-Tra |
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CDJBR222 |
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