All The Things That Happen - Vinyle 180 Gr

Description

Steve Bates is an artist and musician known for his work with the post-rock ensemble Black Seas Ensemble, his duos with Timothy Herzog and Sophie Trudeau from Godspeed You! Black Emperor, among others, as well as a series of sound explorations exclusively available digitally on his own label, The Dim Coast. All The Things That Happen is his first album for Constellation. Bates explores in a more stripped-down manner the noisier terrain of timbre and low-end tonality of the highly regarded Casio SK-1 sampler keyboard. These sounds have been processed through a variety of electronic devices, effects, amplifiers, and cassette recorders to take their current form on these tracks. Steve notes that all the pieces started as ambient before he sought to achieve more texture and noise. Relearning the Casio SK-1 was the starting point for the development of the music. Treated and manipulated during the recording and mixing phases, these early SK-1 sessions became the foundation of this musical corpus. Working within the rich world of experimental electronics, these tracks have a fundamental melodicism and perhaps even a melancholy, while distortion and overtones saturate and scatter the music in various directions, maintaining a sense of unity and integration of a single body of sound. For fans of William Basinski, Wolf Eyes, Gas, Tim Hecker, Emeralds, Yellow Swans, Flying Saucer Attack.