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{"id":8247998251258,"title":"Hour \/\/ Ease the Work LP [BLACK \/ COLOR] \/ TAPE \/ CD","handle":"hour-ease-the-work-lpblack-color-tape-cd","description":"\u003cp\u003eアメリカ・ペンシルベニアの12人編成スローコアバンドHourが、2024年4月に同国インディーレーベルDeal Lifeからリリースするアルバムです。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eネオクラシカルリスナーにもアプローチするスローコア〜アンビエント・フォーク19曲を収録。DLコード付属。 \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eマスタリングはJack Callahanが担当しています。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QUQO2s-m1uo?si=3aguesZ_u3gNV9I1\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=4284078380\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=none\/track=3622427371\/transparent=true\/\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" seamless=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eレーベルその他作品は\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/delire\"\u003eこちら\u003c\/a\u003e \/\/\/ Click \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/delire\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e to see more Dear Life releases available at Tobira. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e----------------------------\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIncludes DL code. Available in black and opaque red 12\" vinyl, tape, and cd.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJason Calhoun - synth\u003cbr\u003eMichael Cormier-O’Leary - electric guitar, classical guitar, percussion\u003cbr\u003eEm Downing - violin\u003cbr\u003eMatt Fox - viola\u003cbr\u003eElisabeth Fuchsia - violin\u003cbr\u003ePeter Gill - bass\u003cbr\u003eLucas Knapp - radio effects, field recordings, piano\u003cbr\u003eEvan McGonagill - cello\u003cbr\u003ePeter McLaughlin - drums, percussion\u003cbr\u003eKeith J. Nelson - bass clarinet, clarinet\u003cbr\u003eErika Nininger - piano, rhodes\u003cbr\u003eAbi Reimold - electric guitar \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDan Wriggins\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e :\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Immediate, passionate, occasionally dissonant, open, open, open, and very often sublime, Ease the Work is an undeniably grand statement from the instrumental ensemble Hour. Conceived by composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Michael Cormier-O’Leary (Friendship, 2nd Grade, Dear Life Records) and delivered live by nine musicians in early 2023, Ease the Work is where breathy timbre and cinematic swoon factor meet in communion. Atmosphere and old school melody shake hands. Nice seeing you again. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eTo record Ease the Work, the crew traveled via ferry with an entire studio’s worth of equipment to an old theater on Peaks Island in Maine, months before the first tourists would show up. The week-long session started with an island-wide power outage that halted recording on the first day, and ended with twelve songs that walk steadily between longing and contentment, sentimentality and subtlety, the lift of harmony and the compulsion of a melody you wish would play forever. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eFormed in the flourishing underground of West Philadelphia in the latter half of the 2010s, Hour has fluctuated in size and scope around Cormier-O’Leary’s clear yet open-ended harmonic\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e framework and ambitious ear. Ease the Work builds on the bedrock of Hour’s first two records, Tiny Houses and Anemone Red, and represents the group at its most expansive in sound and membership. Ten musicians, heads from punk, experimental, and classical scenes up and down the east coast, made up the band at Hour’s August ‘23 residency in Queens, New York. The stage wasn’t big enough. The string section had to set up on the floor. Cormier-O’Leary has contributed notably across the landscape of independent music, and Hour is living, breathing, deep listening proof of his community-minded ethos. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHour’s music cuts a broad pathway, and remains hard to classify or compare. Perhaps most at home beside work from Bill Frisell, Eiko Ishibashi, ECM Records, or the Louisville experimental chamber group Rachel’s, Ease the Work shows us life on the boundary of composition and improvisation. It reaches for the sweeping gestures and inspired pacing of classic film scores, Frank Sinatra ballads, and Scott Walker’s pop orchestra. It also retains the arresting intimacy of the band’s early work. Strings swell and harmonize in counterpoint with electric guitar, clarinet, and piano, while drums, synth pads, and field recordings complete the aural world. Cormier-O’Leary says, “it isn’t a soundtrack. If it was, there would be a movie.” Ease the Work might be its own movie. The protagonist walking. A gorgeous day darkening. A cat in the window. Always strange, always familiar. Sometimes struggling. Sometimes eroding into disorder. Sometimes pressing on, lifting up. Never quite into heaven. 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Lifeからリリースするアルバムです。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eネオクラシカルリスナーにもアプローチするスローコア〜アンビエント・フォーク19曲を収録。DLコード付属。 \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eマスタリングはJack Callahanが担当しています。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QUQO2s-m1uo?si=3aguesZ_u3gNV9I1\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=4284078380\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=none\/track=3622427371\/transparent=true\/\" style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" seamless=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eレーベルその他作品は\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/delire\"\u003eこちら\u003c\/a\u003e \/\/\/ Click \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/tobirarecords.com\/collections\/delire\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e to see more Dear Life releases available at Tobira. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e----------------------------\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIncludes DL code. Available in black and opaque red 12\" vinyl, tape, and cd.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJason Calhoun - synth\u003cbr\u003eMichael Cormier-O’Leary - electric guitar, classical guitar, percussion\u003cbr\u003eEm Downing - violin\u003cbr\u003eMatt Fox - viola\u003cbr\u003eElisabeth Fuchsia - violin\u003cbr\u003ePeter Gill - bass\u003cbr\u003eLucas Knapp - radio effects, field recordings, piano\u003cbr\u003eEvan McGonagill - cello\u003cbr\u003ePeter McLaughlin - drums, percussion\u003cbr\u003eKeith J. Nelson - bass clarinet, clarinet\u003cbr\u003eErika Nininger - piano, rhodes\u003cbr\u003eAbi Reimold - electric guitar \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDan Wriggins\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e :\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Immediate, passionate, occasionally dissonant, open, open, open, and very often sublime, Ease the Work is an undeniably grand statement from the instrumental ensemble Hour. Conceived by composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Michael Cormier-O’Leary (Friendship, 2nd Grade, Dear Life Records) and delivered live by nine musicians in early 2023, Ease the Work is where breathy timbre and cinematic swoon factor meet in communion. Atmosphere and old school melody shake hands. Nice seeing you again. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eTo record Ease the Work, the crew traveled via ferry with an entire studio’s worth of equipment to an old theater on Peaks Island in Maine, months before the first tourists would show up. The week-long session started with an island-wide power outage that halted recording on the first day, and ended with twelve songs that walk steadily between longing and contentment, sentimentality and subtlety, the lift of harmony and the compulsion of a melody you wish would play forever. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eFormed in the flourishing underground of West Philadelphia in the latter half of the 2010s, Hour has fluctuated in size and scope around Cormier-O’Leary’s clear yet open-ended harmonic\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e framework and ambitious ear. Ease the Work builds on the bedrock of Hour’s first two records, Tiny Houses and Anemone Red, and represents the group at its most expansive in sound and membership. Ten musicians, heads from punk, experimental, and classical scenes up and down the east coast, made up the band at Hour’s August ‘23 residency in Queens, New York. The stage wasn’t big enough. The string section had to set up on the floor. Cormier-O’Leary has contributed notably across the landscape of independent music, and Hour is living, breathing, deep listening proof of his community-minded ethos. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHour’s music cuts a broad pathway, and remains hard to classify or compare. Perhaps most at home beside work from Bill Frisell, Eiko Ishibashi, ECM Records, or the Louisville experimental chamber group Rachel’s, Ease the Work shows us life on the boundary of composition and improvisation. It reaches for the sweeping gestures and inspired pacing of classic film scores, Frank Sinatra ballads, and Scott Walker’s pop orchestra. It also retains the arresting intimacy of the band’s early work. Strings swell and harmonize in counterpoint with electric guitar, clarinet, and piano, while drums, synth pads, and field recordings complete the aural world. Cormier-O’Leary says, “it isn’t a soundtrack. If it was, there would be a movie.” Ease the Work might be its own movie. The protagonist walking. A gorgeous day darkening. A cat in the window. Always strange, always familiar. Sometimes struggling. Sometimes eroding into disorder. Sometimes pressing on, lifting up. Never quite into heaven. Always into beauty. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArtist : Hour\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLabel : Dear Life x Lily Tapes \u0026amp; Discs\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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