Thom Nguyên // The Summer Past In Monotone LP [COLOR]

アメリカ・ノースカロライナのアンビエント作家Thom Nguyênが、2023年9月にドイツのネオクラシカルレーベルOscarsonからリリースしたレコードです。

ロングフォームなアンビエント2曲を収録。緑盤です。DLコード付属。

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Includes DL code. 12" opaque green vinyl. 

Tracklist:

1. The Path Towards The River 16:48
2. The Far Shore Lay Deeply Shadowed 16:53

Text excerpt by Ceremony of Seasons:

"...Though you may know Thom Nguyen from frenetic drum improvisations with MANAS and other projects, even a quick scan through his catalogue reveals the vastness of his range across a variety of instruments. Here he works in synthesis, mixing evolving texture with pulsing sequences. The two sidelong tracks don't build so much as drift, each layer like so many mushrooms breaking groundcover in their season until they crumble back into the soil. Filters open into blossom and close again into the mix's depths. Drones burrow out of the earth and buzz into life, leaving behind shells of their passage as they exit. Sequences sing into the landscape, strange birds, and silence again as dusk falls. Nguyen uses the full length of both sides of the 12” to create vast environments that vibrate with synthetic life. But as with organic nature, those organisms all eventually decay, waxing and waning like July’s Buck moon.

Within The Summer Passed In Monotone is the full radiance of the summer sun, but night falls even in the brightest months. This fourth release for Ceremony of Seasons, rounding out our inaugural year, encircles a theme across all of this year’s offerings: ephemerality. Everything passes away into time, and music marks its passage, like a clock, a calendar, a ritual. But a record is a spiral, not a circle; it begins and ends. And like all the others, this one finishes with the listener not quite ready to let go, clinging to this mirage of summer as if more sound might prevent the end. Time passes, we spiral with it. All seasons fade, but though this release marks the close of the first year for CoS, time moves ever forward, and there is yet much more to come. "

Artist : Thom Nguyên

Label : Ceremony of Seasons (Oscarson)

CAT No : COS004